The booze barriers

Washington Times ^ | Tuesday, January 1, 2002 | Jacob Sullum

[dirtboy]

The Constitution does not grant the right to be intoxicated or to "smoke" something who's only use is a low grade insect repellent.

It also does not grant the federal government the power to ban either - hence the need for a constitutional amendment to ban booze on a national level. Bad idea, but at least they implemented it properly.

[oyez]

. We need to restore prohibition. I'll drink to that.

I used to live in a dry county. I never seen so many public drunks. Every four years some merchants would put up a referendum for a wet county. People would stager to the polls and vote dry.

[steve50]

That I agree with, it does take a Constitutional Amendment to make the WOD legal. Every argument I've heard here against booze prohibition applies to cannabis. It's time to stop the foolishness of this war on a plant.

[riley1992]

Please see post #2 and make sure you are sitting down before you read it.

[Wolfie]

Steve, methinks your point has been lost upon the masses. Too bad, because its a good one.

[Wolfie]

You're right, of course. If we re-instated Prohibition we'd have bootleggers, expanded organized crime, reduced civil liberties, asset seizure, turf battles in the street, illict funding of terrorism, etc. Good thing we don't have any of those now.

[riley1992]

ROTFL. Very succinctly put.

[steve50]

Alcohol and tobacco each kill aprox. 300,000 a year. The health and economic costs are enormous. What part of this do you disagree with?

[Bryan24]

I agree with your sentiment. However, total prohibition would never be implememted.

But, I would like to see the laws changed so that PUBLIC CONSUMPTION Of ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES BE MADE ILLEGAL. There is NO JUSTIFIABLE REASON for alcohol to be publicly consumed in the US.

The effects of alcohol consumption in the US are staggering. Go ask a police officer how often alcohol is involved in the calls they are sent on. Try 60-70%.

We have LOWERED the number to 10,000-15,000 killed every year by drunken driving. In the past 25 years, we have had nearly ONE MILLION PEOPLE killed by drunk drivers.

I haven't even touched the injured, the lost jobs, the missed work, the broken marriages, the abuse, the health related illnesses. It is really sad that we put up with the effects of alchol use. REALLY sad.

[riley1992]

All of it. If you want to drink yourself to death, have at it. If you want to smoke yourself to death, have at it. If you are trying to tout higher insurance premiums as sound reason to implement prohibition, you are not going to find me in your cheerleading section.

[dakine]

those are fightin' words (post 2), the dude's nuts...

[Wolfie]

People got it then...

That was quite some time ago. The Government was fighting with one arm tied behind its back. Using some of the tactics developed during Prohibition II, we could eliminate alcohol use in our lifetime. After all, nobody can get illegal drugs anymore, right?

[steve50]

It's not really restore, we have prohibition. Just expand the scope to include the more dangerous drugs that are currently legal.

[NoCurrentFreeperByThatName]

Thanks, more for me. Oh yeah, Pog ma' Thon!

[steve50]

"After all, nobody can get illegal drugs anymore, right?"

Correct. A few years ago the right wing promised to win the WOD by 2002. With that victory under our wings we can't stop now.