Alcohol Prohibition Comparisons
The cluster discusses historical US alcohol prohibition as a cautionary example against banning other substances like drugs, highlighting its failures such as increased crime, poor quality illicit products, and eventual repeal.
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You should probably read about the Prohibition[0] and the disadvantages of prohibiting addictive substances like alcohol.[0]: https://www.history.com/topics/roaring-twenties/prohibition
How did banning drugs work out? Alcohol?
Because they tried to ban alcohol before and it didn't go too well.
Compare to alcohol prohibition.
You seem to ignore that we've already tried banning alcohol and currently ban many drugs. We scrapped banning alcohol for a reason.
We tried banning alcohol once already...
Alcohol is regulated, why not let them have it too?
Guess we should have banned alcohol again.
Sounds like you need to read-up on the prohibition and what making alcohol illegal did to our country.
That is a bit like during Prohibition there was a lot of illegal alcohol much of which was bad quality containing methanol instead of ethanol, making people blind or deadhttps://www.pastemagazine.com/drink/alcohol-history/prohibit..."Suffice to say, the public didn’t take too kindly to that kind o