[Orangedog]

It may be helpful for you to read up on the experiences that the United States had with alcohol prohibition in the 1920's. Prohibition created organized crime in this country. When the people realized that making alcohol illegal had caused far worse problems than it solved, they did away with prohibition. Unfortunately, too many people are making a living off of the drug war to do away with it.

[ConservativeMan55]

Interesting...

[Alter Kaker]

Then this is other question - one of cost-benefit analysis. And in this case, ability not to well enforce law is certainly cost that must to be taken into account. But this is not what Herr Einstein, this useful-idiot socialist was saying. No, implies that enforce-ability should to be prime ground for judging worth of such law, and that is foolishness.

[Wolfie]

When the people realized that making alcohol illegal had caused far worse problems than it solved, they did away with prohibition.

True. But then, the people knew exactly what needed to be done. Since the laws of our nation had been followed in instituting Alcohol Prohibition, the solution was easy. Just do away with the Volstead Act (favorite quote, "They can never repeal it" - Sen. Volstead). Now of course, nobody knows exactly how to get out of this mess, since it was such a byzantine structure of strict ignorance of the Constitution that has gotten us to where we are today. The government learned from its prior mistake of providing the people with a flashpoint around which to rally.