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It is even more trivial to brew and optionally distill alcohol than to grow marijuana. So all that "difficult and costly" would achieve is an increase of dange
by lstodd 6y ago
It is even more trivial to brew and optionally distill alcohol than to grow marijuana. So all that "difficult and costly" would achieve is an increase of dangerous homebrew substances being consumed.
- minikites 6y agoProhibition was a failure for a number of reasons, but alcohol use did go down and has remained lower than it was pre-Prohibition. Not everyone is going to have the time/energy/resources/interest to brew their own alcohol.
- tarentel 6y agoNo it hasn't https://apnews.com/article/f1f81ade0748410aaeb6eeab7a772bf7 https://apnews.com/article/f1f81ade0748410aaeb6eeab7a772bf7
- minikites 6y agoDid you read the article? > Historians say drinking was heaviest in the early 1800s, with estimates that in 1830 the average U.S. adult downed the equivalent of 7 gallons a year. > These days it’s about 2.3 gallons, according to federal calculations. That works out to nearly 500 drinks, or about nine per week.