David J. Hanson is often very critical about the prevailing views on alcoholism. This great researcher is of the view that the positive effect of alcohol on the human body has been highlighted too much only to reduce the harms of drinking. David J. Hanson has often expressed his concern against the encouragement to the drinkers from different sections of the society and even also from the elite of the society. David J. Hanson has openly criticized the free flow of alcohol in the society. David J. Hanson
is also against them who support partial prohibition or rather some control on the sale and consumption of alcohol.
Presently, no person below the age of 21 can buy alcohol or even is prohibited from drinking in the United States of America. David J. Hanson has also strongly criticized this ban on the young drinkers. David J. Hanson is a champion struggler against any kind of positive notion on alcoholism. To strengthen his position he has even carried out personal attack on many leaders who are in favor of partial banning of alcohol or supports controlled use of alcohol in the American society. David J. Hanson has even openly criticized the leaders who are in favor partial prohibition.
There are 2 types of prohibitions of alcohol in the society. These are cultural prohibition and legal
prohibition. Cultural prohibition of alcohol makes the alcoholism a socially unacceptable practice and the regular takers of alcohol are generally looked down upon in the society. But one can also take alcohol even being a member of a civilized society when there is no legal ban on the consumption of alcohol in a country ruled by civil law. But when when there is legal prohibition on alcohol nobody can take alcohol without facing punitive action if their illegal act is detected by the police and administrative authority.
Many group of neo-prohibitionists in USA want to impose cultural prohibition on the use of alcohol and they are not in favor of legal ban on prohibition as it may violate individual's
rights. David J. Hanson has violently criticized those who want to let the use of alcohol legally acceptable but want to put social stigma on the practice of alcoholism. David J. Hanson has termed this mentality of accepting alcoholism as a legally acceptable matter as “temperance mentality” and he thinks that this is a tactics to make the use of alcohol a more socially acceptable practice which only increases the chance of abusive drinking.
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