And if you were around in the 20's you would have said, "And they could end all this tomorrow by decriminalizing alcohol."
The gangs will find something else -- guns, prostitution, human organs. Hell, legalize drugs and they'd probably get into the export business, smuggling our legal drugs to those countries where drugs remain illegal.
The gangs will find something else — guns, prostitution, human organs. Hell, legalize drugs and they'd probably get into the export business, smuggling our legal drugs to those countries where drugs remain illegal.”
“In 1907, when Georgia and Oklahoma made the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors illegal state wide, the homicide rate in the United States was 1 person per 100,000 per year.[2] Before the end of the decade, 13 states plus Alaska, Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia had gone dry.[6] By 1919—when the 18th amendment was passed, making alcohol use illegal nationwide—the homicide rate had grown to 8 per 100,000. The murder rate climbed steadily until it peaked at 10 per 100,000 around 1933, when our nation admitted its mistake, and repealed the 18th amendment. By 1943 the homicide rate had drastically shrunk to 5 per 100,000 and stayed near that level until 1964 when the United States made the same mistake all over again (see graphic).[2]”
http://w3.ag.uiuc.edu:8001/Liberty/Tales/CrimeAndDrugWar.Html
“And if you were around in the 20’s you would have said, “And they could end all this tomorrow by decriminalizing alcohol.”
And he would be correct.
Prohibition was the catalyst and the vehicle for taking common street punks and organizing them into sophisticated criminal organizations that exist to this day.
History is repeating itself.