This chapter interrogates the paradox at the heart of UK drug policy: that the most harmful drug in society—alcohol—is not only legal but celebrated, marketed, and protected. Drawing on public health data, criminal justice statistics, and sociocultural analysis, the chapter explores alcohol-related deaths, violence, addiction, and social costs, contrasting these harms with the marginalised treatment of less dangerous illicit drugs. It examines the policy blind spot created by the normalisation of alcohol and critiques the failure to adopt meaningful harm reduction or regulatory interventions. Through personal reflections from frontline experience in nightlife and the courts, this chapter challenges the moral double standards that underpin British drug discourse. It concludes by arguing that a just and coherent drug policy cannot ignore alcohol, and that the legal/illegal divide reflects politics—not pharmacology or risk.