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To: NobleFree

It was wise to end Prohibition of alcohol, and it would have been wiser yet to have never adopted it.


90 posted on 04/18/2017 2:37:38 PM PDT by Rockingham
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To: Rockingham
Alcoholism was a common problem in the US throughout the 19th century, with the opium extract laudanum also much abused. These ills prompted the temperance and prohibition movements

Was it wise or unwise to end Prohibition? I say wise.

It was wise to end Prohibition of alcohol, and it would have been wiser yet to have never adopted it.

Would we by the same token be wise to end prohibitions of other popular mind-altering substances such as marijuana? I say so. If not, why the difference from alcohol policy?

91 posted on 04/19/2017 6:35:43 PM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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