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Does banning a drug make life better?
In the USA alcohol was prohibited in 1920 in order to make life better, it failed, but why?

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  • It's not that America needs alcohol, it's that Americans need to make their own decisions. Hell, I hate drinking, but I do love freedom.

  • Funny thing. Although the Volsted Act prohibited the manufacture, sale and distribution of alcholic beverages, nowhere in the language did it prohibit the actual USE OR CONSUMPTION of said beverages. Quite the loophole!

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  • I know you probably meant it as a joke, but that's Robert Stack, who played Elliot Ness on "The Untouchables" (TV Show not Movie), not Elliot Ness himself.

  • @daveyork0 you're crazy, you might as well try to stop the wind from blowing with your hand, laws don't stop drug use and the Qu'ran is BS, so is the Bible and I ching lol

  • Now we have these tea party social conservatives who remind me of the people who brought us this 18th amendment. People like Sharon Angle and Christine O'Donnell would probably be for this amendment.

  • This was really helpfull :) Thanks, beats reading a million pages on Wikipedia :L

  • "He/She who does not learn from history is doomed to forever repeat it."

  • Good ol' Billy Sunday. I just drank a shot of Maker's Mark in his memory!

  • You will always be able to get what you want for enough money.Hitmen.Prostitutes,Child porn.

    and our harmless old buddy Cannabis.

    Those are all illegal things.And a sprawling market for each.

  • We did it before. We can do it again, smarter and better and longer.

    Burning that stuff and pouring in down the drain is the most awesome expression of power.

    Moral strength of temperance on the home front was required to defeat the Hun and that carried through to the era that followed.

    The Single God alone befits worship and al-Quran is best guidance to mankind.

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