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To: Ken H
Prior to Prohibition, each state made their own alcohol decision, identical to your (b) and (c). About half the states prohibited alcohol in one form or another.

"Dry" states, however, found that alcohol was being shipped in from "wet" states. They petitioned the federal government for help and Congress passed the Webb-Kenyon Act, forbidding this activity. It wasn't effective, and Prohibition soon followed.

What makes you think it would be any different with drugs? Worse, since drugs are far easier to smuggle across state lines.

77 posted on 04/17/2006 8:06:03 AM PDT by robertpaulsen
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To: robertpaulsen
"Dry" states, however, found that alcohol was being shipped in from "wet" states. They petitioned the federal government for help and Congress passed the Webb-Kenyon Act, forbidding this activity. It wasn't effective

Tough beans. Who ever promised any state that they could effectively enforce any damn-fool law that entered their heads?

84 posted on 04/17/2006 3:43:30 PM PDT by Know your rights (The modern enlightened liberal doesn't care what you believe as long as you don't really believe it.)
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To: robertpaulsen
Prior to Prohibition, each state made their own alcohol decision, identical to your (b) and (c). About half the states prohibited alcohol in one form or another.

Since I said "how alcohol is currently regulated", I fail to see your point:

b. Regulate them all in a manner similar to how alcohol is currently regulated.

"Dry" states, however, found that alcohol was being shipped in from "wet" states. They petitioned the federal government for help and Congress passed the Webb-Kenyon Act, forbidding this activity. It wasn't effective, and Prohibition soon followed.

And that was a huge flop. What followed was much more sensible.

What makes you think it would be any different with drugs?

We are already at the Prohibition stage, using your alcohol comparison. If it follows in alcohol's staggering path, then I see no reason that prohibition would be reimposed.

104 posted on 04/17/2006 9:57:34 PM PDT by Ken H
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To: robertpaulsen; tpaine
What makes you think it would be any different with drugs? Worse, since drugs are far easier to smuggle across state lines.

As you have admitted, alcohol prohibition did not work. It actually increased crime.

And you have unwittingly admitted that the WOD cannot work and has actually increased crime.

164 posted on 04/19/2006 3:49:05 PM PDT by Eagle Eye (There ought to be a law against excess legislation.)
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