[davesdude]

Hum so many erroneous statement that it will be impossible to cover them all!

okay let's start : "saw an unprecedented spike in alcohol abuse on a national level"

actually, alcohol use dropped around 1923-24 and spiked back in 1930...all stats on the net confirms!


"but for the most part our nation sobered up and dried out. "

actually, it's the total opposit!!! where did you take your figures??? the consumption of hard spirits spiked up and death related to alcohol too...

"criminals generate crime"

and where these criminals come from??? you statement makes no sens!

"If we legalize drugs, the criminals will move onto other markets such as human trafficking and sex slaves."

and that's why the great country of freedom that Holland is, "legalized" it...

[bobjam]

The abuse of alcohol in our country gained momentum after the Civil War. Groups such as the Anti-Saloon League blamed the violence that permeated not only city life but also frontier life on alcohol. Town after town responded to the problem by "going dry". You would be surprised at just how many towns today are either dry or have very strict Blue Laws. Eventually the public had had enough and three-fourths of our elected state legislatures ratified the Prohibition Amendment (to liberals that's an example of a minority forcing its unpopular morals on everyone else while a 5-4 SCOTUS decision is a sterling example of good governance). It is no wonder that alcohol use dropped off in the early 1920's.

If laws creat crime, then let's end murder by legalizing it. We could end illegal immigration by legalizing it too.