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minus-squareAwesomeLowlander ( AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ) linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-215 hours agoYou seem to have missed the 1001 negative side effects of Prohibition, that eclipsed the tiny ideological victory of reducing drinking. https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/prohibition/unintended-consequences Additionally, there is no consensus on whether Prohibition was even successful at that, owing to a lack of hard data. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition_in_the_United_States This is quite aside from the fact that today we’ve figured out that criminalising drugs and users is the wrong approach and does a lot more harm than good. But we STILL have people like you.
You seem to have missed the 1001 negative side effects of Prohibition, that eclipsed the tiny ideological victory of reducing drinking.
https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/prohibition/unintended-consequences
Additionally, there is no consensus on whether Prohibition was even successful at that, owing to a lack of hard data.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition_in_the_United_States
This is quite aside from the fact that today we’ve figured out that criminalising drugs and users is the wrong approach and does a lot more harm than good. But we STILL have people like you.