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(Not that I'm for recreational drug legalization, I may get downvoted to death¹ but I don’t actually think Prohibition was necessarily a bad idea, perhaps just
by boogies 6y ago
(Not that I'm for recreational drug legalization, I may get downvoted to death¹ but I don’t actually think Prohibition was necessarily a bad idea, perhaps just badly implemented — it should have been phased in over decades like the Founding Fathers had hoped to do with slavery, and a local issue.)
¹Edit: interesting, about ten minutes after my higher post and 4 after this, this still has 1 point but its parent lost ⅓ of its peak 6.
- dragonwriter 6y ago> it should have been phased in over decades like the Founding Fathers had hoped to do with slavery The founding fathers were a mix of people who thought slavery today, tomorrow, and forever was the plan, people that wanted it gone ASAP, and everything in between. The compromise they came up with was to lock on it for a few decades absolutely plus give enormous power advantages to the people that economically depended on it to protect it going forward; there might have been some who hoped, or at least expected, it would be phased out over time after the lock in period, but for the most part even they would have been hoping future generations might overcome the barriers they set up that made they difficult, it's not like they built any foundation for it.