Behind The Neo-Prohibition Campaign

The Center for Consumer Freedom ^ | April 17, 2003 | Dan Mindus

[WaterDragon]

Even as the tobacco companies were targeted, and now as "fat" is being targeted, an attempt to criminalize the use of alcohol is underway.

[fporretto]

Self-ping for later reading.

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[bassmaner]

Worth a WOD bump.

Another front in the WOD, harking back to the golden age of Prohibition (1920-1933), coming soon to a tavern near you, courtesy of the harpies at MADD.

[B. Rabbit]

Why do people think that they can control me?

OTOH, why do we allow ourselves to be controlled?

Bah! I can't get high, let me get drunk at least.

DISCLAIMER: For the record, I have never used drugs and do not drink.

[jmc813]

WOD Ping

[jmc813]

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Ping

[cinFLA]

Libertarian Party defends Joycelyn Elders' call to study drug legalization

"Elders is joining a long list of intelligent, reputable Americans who advocate examining drug legalization," noted Dasbach. "Baltimore Mayor Kurt Schmoke, conservative commentator William F. Buckley, former Secretary of State George Schultz, and Nobel Prize winner Milton Friedman are a few of the others. This is no longer a radical idea. It's an idea whose time is coming."

[cinFLA]

Let me see if I have this straight....

Presently you hate the (perceived) focus of prosecuting drug users BUT

you are anti RWJF which is shifting focus to the suppliers!

Huh?

[cinFLA]

Even as the tobacco companies were targeted, and now as "fat" is being targeted, an attempt to criminalize the use of alcohol is underway.

Perhaps you should read again. It says they are shifting focus to the suppliers, not the users. Isn't this what the druggies want? Decriminalization of the use of drugs?

[Wolfie]

...it is an article of faith that diminishing per capita consumption across the board can contain the social consequences...

Hey, works for the Drug War, why not booze?

[Amalie]

Yeah, but the drug war doesn't work either...

[MrLeRoy]

That's the leftist/WOD mantra: "Let's have more of what hasn't worked."

[MrLeRoy]

Presently you hate the (perceived) focus of prosecuting drug users BUT

you are anti RWJF which is shifting focus to the suppliers!

Who was prosecuting alcohol users?

[MrLeRoy]

Even as the tobacco companies were targeted, and now as "fat" is being targeted, an attempt to criminalize the use of alcohol is underway.

It would serve "conservative" pro-WOD drinkers right to have their drug of choice banned, and then as they try to undo the ban to be told, "The same logic that supports relegalization of alcohol supports relegalization of drugs; you don't want that, do you?"

[aristeides]

Anybody got an explanation for the RWJ Foundation's zeal in this cause?

[cinFLA]

We are talking logic. Something beyond your scope.

[tacticalogic]

RWJF sees this as a "health care" issue, and therefore fair game for government control as a means of controlling health care costs. They see gun ownership, "urban sprawl", and mandatory public school education in gay and lesbian "lifestyle" issues the same way.

They advocate "single payer" healthcare, under centralized governemnt control guided by healtcare industry interest groups (them). Their idea of what constitutes "health care" is about as malleable as what Congress considers "commerce".

[tacticalogic]

We are talking logic.

When did that start?

[cinFLA]

Zimmerman (on the medical marijuana scam)

"So, I'm going to take a position here and I know a lot of people will want to ask questions about this later, but the fastest way to get – that we can get to where we're going is as fast as the American people are willing to go there with us. And, that if we try to get too far out ahead of people, we lose our connection to them and our relation to them and our credibility, and we make it more difficult to move them where we want to go, because that's the only way we're going to get to where we want to go. Thank you."

[aristeides]

But it's pretty hard to believe that draconian policies that discourage even moderate drinking would on balance save health costs.