User blog comment:Dar'Rajhin/Elder Scrolls Online: Legendary Limerick Contest/@comment-71.209.147.169-20120821083436

In Tamriel the damage caused by alcohol is openly apparent, while only on occasion does one encounter danger or heartache resulting from skooma use. However, cash from big business keeps the rich white meadery owners operating legally while skooma, coming largely from foreign often lower class traveling merchants, migrant workers from "elsewhere" is so touted as horrid and without value it is the target of prohibition. Am I the only one that sees the parallels b/t this and the laws and history regarding alcohol and marijuana in the US today. Made illegal due to racism against the migrant laborors with whom it came to this country as well as the literal tons of money spent by a rich minority owing their wealth to the production and distribution of their own drug alcohol, the health damaging effects of which far outway those of marijuana. So much money is spent by these types that the entire US alcohol prohibition was impleminted with the intended outcome of illegalizing private distillation of ethanol but not consumption,further ensuring their continued profits. Why do we take the excess corn produced domestically and sell it internationally at below cost while subsidising the grower? Because if left domestic the market value would drop and people would start processing corn starch into sugar and making that into alcohol to make a profit. While this would both create jobs in the organic chemistry, brewing and distilling fields it would also lead to less domestic corn production as farmers diversified their crops growing produce with higher domestic market value, which would help combat globalization and the turmoil (both economic and environmental) that it produces. However, things remain as they are because cheap sugar(from corn starches made from cheap overproduced corn, )combined with their monopoly on domestic liquor production (a monopoly our tax dollars, not superior business technique, perpetuate) make a very few so very rich that those few would never consider allowing change, regardless of the immesurable benifit to mankind as a whole that ending this rediculous cycle would bestow. Poetry of the proletariot