It will read:
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Section 1. After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all the territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited.
Section 2. The Congress and the several States shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Section 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission here to the States by the Congress.
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What say you? Support it, or reject it?
Yes, drugs and alcohol are exactly the same. There is no difference whatsoever between beer and heroin. None.
Replace “intoxicating liquors” with illegal aliens(I recognized the 18th amendment....it never prohibited private consumption or ownership of alcohol, by the way!), dropping the term “manufacture” and it would be a splendid amendment to the constitution!
The weakness of the 18th amendment was that it tried to remedy the problem of rampant alcoholism indirectly instead of crafting a legal frame work that has society directly “facing the bull”.
It’s something akin to how Dem’s pass all sorts of indirect antigun laws to try to nullify the second amendment without repealing it outright.(ie you can only have so many guns of a type, but you can’t conceal them but you can’t carry them openly for that would be considered ‘brandshing’, only certain types of ammunition, and you are limited to how many you can put in a clip....well you get the picture!)
It’s a sneaky dishonest way to legislate that insults the intelligence of reasonably intelligent voters. The 18th amendment was just such legislation and it needed to go away. Ironically, historians did note that there was a marked reduction in alcohol consumption generally as well as crime. Yet, for those who just had to have their drink, and for the criminals who saw an opportunity to make a quick buck, it set the stage for the growth of organized crime with it’s associated vicious gang wars. The Fed’s also realized eventually that they were losing out on all those excise taxes and fees they could charge on legally produced alcohol from those folks who “just had to have their drink!”