On: Cocaine Paraphernalia Ads in the 70s

[GDC7]

You have it the other way around.

Alcohol is legal because people love to be inebiated more than they like being stoned or on a paranoid coke binge, or nodding off due to heroin

Majority rules , and so the preference with regards to the feeling of being inebriated + collective risk tolerance of society + the variability of alcoholic beverages + the low cost of the substance made it so that alcohol emerged .

[engineeringwoke → GDC7]

No, it's because primates have been eating rotten fruit for tens of thousands of years to get high, and primates can't run a chemistry lab.