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To: A CA Guy
Many times alcohol is in the mix with pot.

We know limited use isn’t bad and I believe it is already illegal while driving and operating machinery.
I could live with it banned if it helped keep pot banned.

I applaud your honesty - as opposed to the handwaving of many Drug Warriors on the subject of alcohol. But I bemoan the fact that you apparently don't know that alcohol Prohibition has been tried, over the opposition of the conservatives of the day, and proved to cause more ills than it cured.

117 posted on 08/20/2014 12:20:10 PM PDT by ConservingFreedom (A goverrnment strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them.)
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To: ConservingFreedom

You are giving the pot warriors theme. You can’t stop it, so go with it.
I disagree, we also try to stop theft, murder and rape. I think those will never go away either.


121 posted on 08/20/2014 12:25:27 PM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: ConservingFreedom
But I bemoan the fact that you apparently don't know that alcohol Prohibition has been tried, over the opposition of the conservatives of the day,

You really don't know your history. The Temperance/Anti-Saloon league was made up of "progressives" who we would nowadays call women's libbers. Indeed, it was their massive network that created both the 18th and 19th amendments. Mostly socially upscale wives of wealthy men leading the thing, just as with other socialist movements throughout history.

and proved to cause more ills than it cured.

Yeah, because were losing a LOT MORE THAN 90,000 PEOPLE PER YEAR BACK THEN, WEREN'T We?

Thank God we got rid of it, else the population would have never survived all the dead people caused by prohibition.

You are either naively ignorant, or just outright lying about stuff.

199 posted on 08/20/2014 2:30:44 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp (Partus Sequitur Patrem)
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