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To: rktman; ConservingFreedom

Think of how much crime would drop if we re-criminalized alcohol.


21 posted on 11/13/2015 6:24:23 AM PST by Wolfie
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To: Wolfie
Ah yes, Prohibition, one of the first big experiments done on the American people by the progressive movement. Most people aren't aware that 10,000 Americans were killed by additives the feds put in the alcohol to keep people from drinking it. The number of people sickened or disable must numbered and hundreds of thousands all because our government "loves" us.

"by 1926, government chemists concocted ten poisonous "denaturing formulas" to be added to the alcohols. These contained ominous chemicals like gasoline, benzene, cadmium, nicotine, ether, formaldehyde, chloroform, and acetone. Prohibition advocates and officials believed that if they made the alcohol undrinkable, imbibers would be forced to abandon their immoral habits. The government defended this effort as "law enforcement." In truth, it was mass poisoning.

Source: Real Clear Science, When the Government Deliberately Poisoned Its Citizens

60 posted on 11/13/2015 10:18:02 AM PST by WMarshal (Either the mess gets fix or the Democrat Party and the Republican Parties will implode.)
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