[Know your rights]

If those other rotten situations should be avoided, why shouldn't the existing one be ended? Do you support making alcohol illegal?

Were its hooks not so deeply embedded in our culture, yes.

Since drug criminalization is failing in all the ways that alcohol criminalization failed, your asssumption that cultural embedding makes a difference stands unsupported by the evidence.

[G32]

It's not failing.. You, on the other hand..

[ModelBreaker]

Since drug criminalization is failing in all the ways that alcohol criminalization failed, your asssumption that cultural embedding makes a difference stands unsupported by the evidence.

No. Alcohol use has been rampant in western societies for centuries. MJ, cocaine, meth and heroin have been unknown or underground for that same period of time. When alcohol was criminalized, it was done in a society in which 75-85% of the adult population were drinkers. It's shortcomings were much more spectacular than the WOD. Imagine trying to criminalize heroin if 80% of the adult population were regular users. That's the right comparison.

[robertpaulsen]

"Since drug criminalization is failing in all the ways that alcohol criminalization failed ..."

False premise. Try again.