Many people say Prohibition did not work, but what is there definition of “did not work”? How many millions of people (children, fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, grandkids, nieces, nephews, cousins, aunts, uncles) have been killed, maimed, or hurt by alcohol and drunk drivers since Prohibition ended?
Living in USSRW (Washington State), the brain-dead liberals (who control elections due to their overwhelming majority) decided to make use or recreational drugs legal. One recent report said that usage at a local high school has doubled. Is this a good thing?
Why will drug use increase among all ages groups - including kids - when legalized? Easy: it is cheaper and more available.
Prohibition had three serious failures. First, all that tax revenue money from booze....just dried up. No one really grasped how much was made off that taxation. Second, people stood there and manufactured booze privately....which meant no taxes collected but just as much booze on the street...which meant the Prohibition gimmick didn’t grasp capitalism. Three, folks noted after a while that cops used the booze-arrests and breakage episodes for public opinion...but others just walked freely. It was a PR-game, and both parties benefited completely from it. Various police chiefs ended up as mayors and some as governors....only because they pretended to enforce the law when they didn’t really care.