. >> host: jacob sullivan, who obviously, is not a huge fan of this book, big libertarian -- >> guest: sure sure. >> host: i disagree with him on some things, agree with him on other. he makes the comparison to a glass of beer to a glass of vodka misses the fact that very few people drink a glass of vodka the way they drink a glass of beer, that we can recognize the poe potency between hard liquor and beer. presumably people will -- >> guest: nurse it? >> host: well, yeah. what will happen and i'm playing a little bit of devil's advocate here, presumably what would happen is enough e.r. visits happen, enough people die or bad things happen to them, and the lesson is learned. the more potent stuff you have to treat differently than the less potent stuff. and it seems to me that is a lesson that can be learned fairly quickly. again, i take your point about it, but certainly we don't say we can't trust people to drink -- we can't have vodka on the market because they might confuse the proof the alcohol content with the content of beer. >> guest: yeah. well a generation -- lots of generat