Gino Kenny (Dublin Mid West, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

My question is about a parallel universe but I will pose it anyway. We all agree alcohol is an accepted drug, whether in Britain or Ireland, for better or for worse. It is accepted, taxed, readily available and marketed very cleverly by alcohol companies. There are obviously health consequences to alcohol consumption, particularly dependency, and it will kill tens of thousands of people, if not hundreds of thousands of people, per year. What would happen tomorrow if alcohol was suddenly made illegal and the war on drugs became a war on alcohol? What would the consequences be in terms of all of those things I just mentioned?