And they have exhibited this tendency, which is both an intoxicant which destroys men, and sometimes as a means of testing their real nature.
It was possible to imagine that a metabolic error could produce an endogenous intoxicant.
Those figures are out of all proportion to the astronomical profits which the liquor trade is making today out of the sale of intoxicants.
Anybody may sell potatoes, or beef, or groceries; but the community only permits a limited number of selected individuals to sell intoxicants.
In 1950 expenditure on intoxicants was £727 million; on tobacco, £778 million; on gambling, £650 million and on entertainment, £175 million, making a grand total of £2,330 million.
Everywhere thoughout the country you will see as you pass the public house—the inn—the announcement that teas and refreshments without intoxicants are served there.
Consequently, they ask the clubs to enter into an agreement whereby they purchase at least a good proportion of their intoxicants from the brewery.
The commercial interest of the drink trade, organised as now on a competitive basis, is to stimulate the very maximum consumption of intoxicants.
