One bad law breeds disrespect for all. Prohibition turned a relatively law abiding nation into an utterly lawless one. Other more standards plummeted terribly during that time. We have still not recovered.
Drug Prohibition is doing the same, and worse, we have a far more corrupt government now, which uses it as an excuse for deprivation of civil rights. I am more afraid of the government than I am of drug users.
The Prohibition Party still soldiers on, obscurely and irrelevantly. Their 2008 presidential candidate got a grand total of 643 votes. Yet, they did manage to elect one public official in the 21st century, a Pennsylvania township tax assesor. Not exactly relevant....
http://www.prohibition.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition_Party
Make that "other mores and standards...."
chalk it up to a 3 year old climbing on me while typing...
“One bad law breeds disrespect for all. Prohibition turned a relatively law abiding nation into an utterly lawless one. Other more standards plummeted terribly during that time. We have still not recovered.”
I think you’re exaggerating. The crime stats don’t show a massive rise after Prohibition, at all. In fact there were crime drops across many states. To blame one “bad law” on disrespect is just an excuse for anarchy. There have always been “good” and “bad” laws, that’s just a cop out.