Posted on 08/06/2020 12:38:42 PM PDT by Ozguy1945
I believe Douglas MacArthur got it right when he described the nature of freedom in the place of his birth The Wild West of America: “……. nowhere else has there been the savage turbulence, the striking vitality and the raucous glamour of the struggle for law and order in the American West.”
Only a few decades later the nation swung the opposite way with the bold experiment of Prohibition. Why did that policy fail? What was good about it?
For all my life abstaining from alcohol has been my personal choice.
But now, at the age of 63, an old friend from Veterans Affairs in Australia has prompted me to make art celebrating alcohol.
I don’t want to drink but …..... its good to be alive.
MacArthur was not a tee-totaler. I was incorrect in that assumption.
I’ll comment as soon as I finish this beer.
No to anything that tells me what to do, period. I don’t need some bureaucrat or politician telling me what I should or shouldn’t do. This whole pandemic makes this feeling even stronger. My brother always reminds me every Friday night when I visit, “you can’t hang everyone”. I am willing to compromise.
Hadn’t thought of it that way.
And it did give us Capone.
But what do we have now?
Hadn’t thought of it that way.
And it did give us Capone.
But what do we have now?
Trying to outlaw something that the majority of people are just going to do anyway is a recipe for disaster.
When people decided marijuana was bad, they took a vote and then said, “That’s stuff’s illegal.”
Actually, that’s an oversimplification. When marijuana was first outlawed, people still realized it would take an amendment to actually give government the authority to ban it, so they did not ban it. Instead, they imposed a tax on it, and then made it a crime to buy or sell marijuana without a tax stamp. Of course it was impossible to obtain a tax stamp, but still, marijuana was not technically outlawed, because the government did not have the authority to do that.
It was not until the time of Nixon that Congress decided it could just pass legislation banning whatever substances it wanted without any appeal to actual Constitutional authority.
Marijuana is indeed taxed (Marijuana Tax Act of 1937), but the federal government does not issue the tax stamps to anyone, so nobody can legally sell it and collect the tax for the government.
Civilization is antithetical to freedom and only exists
as freedom is restrained or surrendered in exchange for
security. Once restrained it is difficult to regain,
once surrendered almost impossible.
“However, the only lives alcohol improves are those of the people who make millions from selling it.”
Hmm, the millions of lives that were only conceived because their parents were under the influence of alcohol might disagree.
Temperance does not equal abstinence.
The smell of pot is nauseating. That alone.should make it illegal. Disturbance of peace.
We’ve been doing prohibition for the last 50 years. It’s shredded the constitution, destroyed liberty, and not stopped anybody from doing drugs. It’s time to BAN prohibition and never try that stupid path again.
BAN PROHIBITION ????????
YOU JUST TRY AND STOP ME !!!!!!!!!!!!
We at least got a good QM show out of Prohibition.
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