“The ad hominem serves to solidify the impression that prohibitionists are every bit as dishonest as any other leftist.”
It’s prima facie proof.
It is. And if they knew the slightest bit about how it became illegal in the first place, they’d realize that they are STILL buying into “fake news” that is almost a century old.
It’s literally illegal because a big newspaper publisher (Hearst) didn’t want cheaper hemp paper competing with his paper mill empire, and he used his control over newspapers to produce fake news to create a nationwide hysteria against it.