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This is naive, if we knew then what we know now alcohol would never have been legalised. We have to deal with the situation we have and criminalising alcohol w
by epo 16y ago
This is naive, if we knew then what we know now alcohol would never have been legalised.
We have to deal with the situation we have and criminalising alcohol would be very difficult, its too entrenched.
The fact that alcohol is worse and legal is not in itself an argument for legalising cannabis.
- philwelch 16y ago"if we knew then what we know now alcohol would never have been legalised" So the St. Valentine's Day Massacre isn't enough to convince you Prohibition was a bad idea, eh?
- epo 16y agoProhibition was about criminalising alcohol, which I said was a bad idea. The problem was legalising alcohol in the first place, which would not have happened had we known then what we know now. Also the SVD massacre was IMHO only tangentially associated with alcohol. It was part of a war between armed gangs, had it not been alcohol it would have been gambling, prostitution or something else. However my karma has taken enough hits for today.
- philwelch 16y agoThe problem was legalising alcohol in the first place I'm pretty sure alcohol (like everything else) was legal by default, and had to actually be prohibited at some point before it could be legalized.