It’s been seventy years now. How long do you think dead Britons will have more responsibility for and power over India and Pakistan than the people in those countries?

Alcohol has been a fellow traveller for millennia, so it only makes sense that evolution would give us the tools to survive it

Only through historical social norms it has achieved its acceptability. Were it to be “discovered” today, it’d be banned in a matter of minutes.

Ease of production is at least as important I think. You can’t really ban access to starch and sugar, and as long as you can get those you can make alcohol.