-Caveat Lector-
What everyone forgets about Prohibition is that it *also* resulted in a per
capita drop in alcohol consumption of 30-40 percent, IIRC. In the sense that
its intention was to discourage the public consumption of alcoholic
beverages, *it succeeded*...and when you compare it to the "deregulated"
situation today, with deaths from drunk driving on the increase, an epidemic
of binge drinking on high school and college campuses, etc., etc., the
conclusion is obvious. Sure, Prohibition allowed criminal syndicates to
expand rapidly--but it didn't *create* them; they were already in existence.
It's all very well and good to argue for decriminalization of drug
possession and use, but not if the result is going to be an even greater
epidemic of abuse than we're seeing now. What makes sense is, instead,
*legalization* of drug use: regulate it, tax it, control it, the way alcohol
was controlled in most states following the repeal of Prohibition, making
the sale of the drugs pay for treatment programs for those who can't handle
them. If that marks me as a tax-and-spend liberal, so be it, but it makes no
sense to me simply to throw open the floodgates so that a few super-rich
plutocrats can get even richer.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alamaine Ratliff [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 1999 6:38 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [CTRL] Prohibitions
>
> -Caveat Lector-
>
> From
> http://orlandosentinel.com/opinion/columnists/reese/102499_reese24_21.htm
>
> {{<Begin>}}
> Charley Reese
> Commentary
>
> What do Prohibition, drug war have in common? Sure failure
> Published in The Orlando Sentinel on October 24, 1999.
>
> Let's take a short quiz on liquor prohibition. In 1919, the Constitution
> was
> amended to ban the manufacture and distribution of alcoholic beverages in
> the
> United States. Prohibition was repealed in 1933.
>
> Did Prohibition succeed in banning liquor? No.
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