haha, love the video! '...when the weekend's here I exercise my right to get paralytic and fight'.

Lol yeah, its kind of true though right.

Here is my take on it. I don't think they are ever going to make alcohol illegal. For starters, they would lose so much revenue in taxes not to mention alcohol is like ingrained in Aussie culture.

If they could go back and legalise weed and make alcohol illegal then maybe it would be a good idea - but I think if they legalise it as well then it reduces the sense that it can cause problems and just increases its availability. I mean, anyone can get access to it if they want it and pretty much everyone I know does when they want to. But at the same time, people that are using it all the time (daily, weekly) are still a bit of a subculture. Whereas drinking daily or weekly is pretty much mainstream.

It does seem ironic that alcohol is the legal one but I have seen weed do a lot of damage and I know my father is pretty f'ed up after using it every day for like 30+ years. Way more so than if he were smoking cigarettes for 30 years. I get that that isn't the way everyone does it but really around certain parts of northern NSW that is how its used. I wouldn't actually care if they legalised it though, I just think it would lead to more people using it more regularly.

As for alcohol, I have no idea how they are going to change the whole get paralytic and fight mindset, ha.

ok heres my take on legalising weed or cannabis . i hounestly dont think its possible and heres why . cannabis is in someways similiar to alchol they all have there different strenghts and different disire effects . where one hit of a joint of a perticulliar joint might be the equivilant too having a beer on a friday after noon another joint may be the equivilant of skulling a full bottle of vodka . so where some weaker strains would be fine to legalise and not cause too much harm to people and some of these very weak strains are avialable legally on the market . we would have no way of knowing what would be avialable on the street we would only solve a small section of the problem . if we where going to legalise weed infomation for schools and the general public would be needed

I met a guy once who makes moonshine.  It is unpredictable in its alcohol content because of the distilling process.  But once they've had a few the whole family usually get an idea of how much to enjoy at Christmas. 

The moonshine is totally illegal. but it doesn't stop legal alcoholic drinks from being made to specific standards and marketed on the basis of their strengths.

In Amsterdam you can choose weed from a menu of different strengths.  Sadly this usually doesn't stop people trying the 'whole bottle of vodka' strengths.  But it does actually prove that you can monitor weed strengths... and market on the basis of different potencies.

If we legalised weed... the controlled stuff would be more attractive precisely because it was controlled. Even our mum's would be having a cheeky puff on holidays.

And that's more the issue.  Our laws let us have alcohol because we've always had alcohol.  But weed hasn't enjoyed the same popularity... so it is scarey for any government to give us the go-ahead to smoke it without knowing the full consequences.

If alcohol were currently illegal, we probably wouldn't legalise that either... on the basis that it causes accidents, generates days off work, creates addicts, and encourages use of other illegal drugs.