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Prohibition makes things edgier and cooler, it only makes people want to do it more. Pretty sure there are places that legalized drugs and usage rates went down
by almonj 9y ago
Prohibition makes things edgier and cooler, it only makes people want to do it more. Pretty sure there are places that legalized drugs and usage rates went down.
- tertius 9y agoAlso, prohibition does not remove addiction. But I'm sure there's something they can add to our drinking water to change that...
- tertius 9y agoI'm not kidding, advances in anti-addiction medication is going pretty well...
- gruturo 9y agoBut this isn't prohibition - tobacco products are still for sale (except to minors, where the mechanism you mention definitely is at play). It's just building a social stigma about the use of the product - which happens to be based on facts.