Posts Tagged "Prohibition"
If repealing prohibition eased the crime that prohibition spawned, would ending the “War on Drugs” reduce…?
Question: If repealing prohibition eased the crime that prohibition spawned, would ending the “War on Drugs” reduce…?
…the violence it has spawned?
Answer:
Answer by GayTeacher
It would be treated as a disease, not a crime. And more people would get rehab.
Prohibition is silly, Public awareness of drug war, Marijuana usage, Never get busted
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Read MoreThe “War on Drugs” is an expensive catastrophe. Why doesn’t prohibition work?
Question: The “War on Drugs” is an expensive catastrophe. Why doesn’t prohibition work?
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/03/09-7
Answer:
Answer by Smokey
Prohibition doesn’t work because people like to drink and have drunk before. All prohibition led to was that liqupr that was very high in alchohaul and maybe unsafe became the norm. The war on frugs wasn’t a war on drugs but really a war on the ghetto anyway.
SA@TAC – The Conservative War on Drug Prohibition
Ron Paul and William F. Buckley are right about the War on Drugs.
Read MoreIs “The War On Drugs” just a fancy new way to say prohibition?
Question: Is “The War On Drugs” just a fancy new way to say prohibition?
Google Ron Paul
Answer:
Answer by COLTSfansince1994
Yeah, and it’s working about as well as Prohibition was.
EDIT: to the young lady below me-
Why do you think such a correlation exists? I’ll tell you- Violent people make money from selling drugs BECAUSE THEY ARE ILLEGAL. Take away the illegality and you’ll also remove the association with violent crime.
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