Drug raid yields Los Alamos documents...
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I'm sure I'll live. I've survived worse.
It's not because One is worse than the other or that big brother is trying to protect you from yourself. It's simply because at the time of the whiskey laws being first implemented, Uncle Sam recognized that it would be much more difficult to catch people in the act of wine/beer making that in the act of building and maintaining a still. The still is a large unconcealable piece of machinery that is unmistakable evidence very difficult to refute. It was a question of enforceability, not right or wrong.
Are you suggesting that there be practical aspects of the law, or that practicality be set aside?
This concept of enforceability is no doubt baffling to some of you younger citizens because Uncle Sam seems to not give a hoot about this concept much anymore. We get new laws right and left from the idiot bureaucrats that don't have a clue about practicality. They are too insulated from such tediousness up there in their palaces of higher thought and social engineering.
Are you the oldest person in the United States or just clairvoyant concerning my age? I'm still missing your point. Mine is that the citizens of the states effected have the authority to prohibit or legalize pot, as well as polygamy, incest, etc.