Originally Posted by Captain Schmidt

An alcohol ban where driving is involved seems fair enough, though not sure I see the link between a cut hand and drugs/drink.

During my time living in the US, I found there was a big contradiction between "society" tut-tutting the use of alcohol (though to be fair, this wasn't quite so true in Chicago), whilst the attitudes to drink-driving from my British perspective were circa 1970. I encountered many people who not only thought it acceptable to have half a dozen beers and drive home at night, but were quite prepared to tell everyone what they had done. Do that in the UK and you can expect to get shunned. Probably no coincidence that deaths on UK roads per km driven are a fraction of the carnage on US highways.