How is alcohol prohibition different than pot prohibition?
“How is alcohol prohibition different than pot prohibition?”
Alcohol was bad because society has used booze for all types of “acceptable” purposes for centuries from the drink at the local pub, after work cocktail, libations that enhanced the flavor of food, to communion wine.
Pot got the reputation of being stuff crazy jazz musicians, Mexicans, and hippie losers puffed on before reading Marx and planning revolution. So the same people that cringed at alcohol being illegal were cool with this even though those that wanted to ban the drink used the same logic as is used here. And that is why it hasn’t worked.