Posted on 01/04/2006 9:59:14 PM PST by F14 Pilot
The 1960's spawned a drug craze that ballooned until drugs too, were banned. Once the laws banning sale and use of drugs went into effect, drug use in the US ceased overnight.
Gun deaths in major US cities too have been stopped. New York city and Washington, DC are two determined sticklers where gun ownership has been curtailed. Both cities saw a resurgence of comity and serenity when guns were banned and the deaths stopped.
Yes, ban world trafficking in caviar. Six billion people will agree, voluntarily to comply. The fish will be saved because no one will buy another ounce of caviar.
Actually, prohibition worked. It limited consumption of alcohol by 60%.
It did give rise to a black market and created a host of other crimes in the process, but it did limit the consumption of alcohol. I don't know how this misinformation keeps being spread, but look it up. Consumption went down.
I don't remeber, where did the UN get authority to ban anything?
Good question
don't look at me for an answer!
And they got those figures how? Did they include all the moonshine my ex-father in law (and thousands like him) made in his still in Canada near the U.S. border? He peddled it on a regular route to distributors all across northern Montana.
There was so much illegal, unaccounted-for booze being guzzled during Prohibition there's no way anyone could possibly have kept track of it. It's like getting hard numbers on the amount of illegal marijuana, crystal meth and other drugs being consumed right now. No one knows how much -- any published figures are just a bunch of WAGs.
BTW, thanks for the advice, I did look it up. You can find my results here .
The study states
Since data on both the price and quantity of alcohol are unavailable during the Prohibition period, it is not possible to estimate Prohibition's impact on either the supply or demand for alcohol, it would be interesting to find out where your figure of 60% derives.
Actually, the conclusion goes on to say, The overall conclusion of the paper is that Prohibition exerted a modest and possibly even a positive effect on alcohol consumption. That seems to work against your hypotheses that prohibition decreased alcohol consumption.
OK. BAN the UN.
Bill Clinton told them they could. He wants to be SecGen doncha know.
Well, knowing the high esteem that the Russians have for edicts issued by the United Nations, I am sure that they will stop selling caviar immediately and give up all that hard currency.
/sarcasm
Yep.......I'm sure this will work almost as well as the international bans on opiates, marijuana, machine guns, child porn......and embezzlement from the revenue of the people of Iraq.
They will no doubt attempt to confiscate all the caviar in the world... And keep it for their own consumption. Many of those UN 'diplomats' LIVE on caviar and champagne. they would starve to death if cut off from it.
They ban caviar but they let the president of Iran say that the Jews did not suffer. Typical
All your eggs are belong to us!
"something smells fishy...."
Does anybody care about a caviar ban really ?
this stuff is expensive as hell and tastes like fish.
There's cheaper things that smell alike.
No biggy. We'll just get in the car and drive on over to Brighton Beach. My boy Ivan will hook us up with a dime bag. We'll have to watch out for five-oh, I hope they're not running a sting. Sure, it's risky, but I'm tweaking. If we get caught, I'm sure we can get some once we're inside Rikers. It'll all work out.
According to official records? What was the source?
Home brewing was a regular technique prior to prohibition and continues to follow it's centuries old tradition today. As best I as I know, our kin's response to prohibition was "Yeah, that's nice" and they drank anyways. I doubt many people had much more regard than that, and if they knew how to brew beer, which was a step above pouring water, prohibition didn't change much of anything.
A source would be nice.
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