Driving over the limit is murder weather it be speeding or alcohol or drugs. What else can it be.

I don't understand this fixation or obsession with drinking of ANY alcohol.
I don't drink, or smoke.
From childhood, I became disgusted with the taste of ALL the alcoholic drinks, ALL!
I don't understand people at all.
The taste of spirits, for example, is the same as petrol, in a word;
DISGUSTING!
And so it is the same for ALL alcoholic drinks.
I eat and drink for taste.
My go to beverage is Coke ZERO.
I'm not a sweet tooth and trained myself off sugar quite some many years ago, so at least I can enjoy a TASTY drink without the risk of too much sugar intake.
But it does not change the fact that the rest of society has a real identity crisis on it's hands.
Is it some kind of MACHO thing that today even the maggots must not be outdone by the morons and prove to their moron companions that they too are as good as any man in being able to get so drunk as to pass out and/or perform acts of debauchery and filth, because they are as good as any man.
Is that what drinking is all about?
Because, for the life of me, I cannot figure out what this absolute fixation and need for drinking alcohol is all about.
I have witnessed socially higher standing people, turn into utter drivelling, non-sensicle, blithering, idiots after getting drunk.
Obviously, I would condone the lowering of the drink/driving level to ZERO, if I had my way.
You see, it turns out that people are their own worst enemy, and are in fact no different than children.
Politicians in their haste to get their filthy hands on the keys to our nations piggy banks will say and offer the people anything they want to facilitate them being elected.
Instead of saying things which are meant to discipline and direct the people.
They let the people (children) have what they want.
Let them run amok, and this is where you end up.
So people, what's it going to be, remove alcohol and live, or keep drinking and die.

It's not a fixation, ALTRAV; it's an addiction. Alcohol is the most dangerous, addictive drug, because it is legal and socially acceptable, unlike the illegal drugs. Only 20% of Australians are not in its grip. I've read that, if booze was only discovered today, it would be banned because of its effect on mind and body: effects clearly obvious to us.

There's a commercial on TV at the moment, demonstrating how long ice remains in the body. The same applies to people who drink daily.

There's money in it for avaricious governments of course. 25% of the cost of a pint is tax. Wine is a big export earner. Vineyards everywhere, but our hypocrites poison or burn poppy fields in Afghanistan.

Drinking is painted as being glamourous. But there's nothing much attractive about young women lying on footpaths, displaying their knickers of a Saturday night in Hindley Street, or blocking the traffic while they have a punch up and attack police in the roadway. Alcohol is now very much an equal opportunity to make an animal of yourself.

And, while it is now necessary to check drivers for hard drugs, drinkers are still the main killers and menaces on the roads.

ttbn, can't agree more.
I take the reasoning that people are immature and never really grow up, which plays directly into the hands of all those who profit at the people's expense, not just financial expense but life itself.
The unfortunate truth is that if the govt suddenly grew some stones and a backbone, and outlawed ALL forms of drugs and really policed it, the same people who cry foul when their precious little Johnny or princesses get killed, would be the ones crying foul of being robbed of their freedom of choice and any other BS they can dream up that would stop the govt from outlawing the crap in the first place.
So you know what, apart from the innocent victims who are the unwilling victims of these mongrels, I say let em drink and drug themselves to death, and slowly we hit people where it hurts.
The loss of a loved one.
Eventually even the biggest morons of the public MUST come around, possibly through extended family pressure.
But I won't hold my breath as Aussies have proven to be amongst the most ignorant, entitled, arrogant bunch of fools with the lowest EQ's and IQ's of all the criteria and factors that make up a human being.

ALTRAV,

What about prohibition? The half-informed smugly say that it failed in America. Now, that might just mean that it failed to the extent hard drug prohibition has failed, which doesn't mean it is useless.

The real reason prohibition in America was repealed was because, you guessed it, the government had difficulty coping without the tax revenue.

difficulty coping without the tax revenue.
ttbn,
Considering the inefficiency & damages caused by drinking, I can imagine that only a Tax could enable Govt to combat the situation !