Extremely profitable from both sides, however. People rarely start off using marijuana, cocaine, heroine, amphetamines, or any other drug. The first drug most people consume is alcohol. Alcohol is legal, socially acceptable, and easily accessible. Once people begin using alcohol, their inhibitions and abilities are dramatically lessened.
Alcohol impairs all the senses and is responsible for extremely poor decision making.
Automobile accidents and deaths. Poor work performance. Building more jails and institutions. Mental institution admissions. Twenty-five to forty percent of all Americans in general hospital beds are there for treatment of complications of alcoholism.