"War on drugs" and alcohol prohibition are frequently used by libertarians to suggest that all forms of prohibition are doomed to cause more damage than that wh

"War on drugs" and alcohol prohibition are frequently used by libertarians to suggest that all forms of prohibition are doomed to cause more damage than that which they prohibit. But this is a sleight of hand, drawing attention to two specific prohibitions which generally failed, away from the myraid of prohibitions that work just fine. Such as the prohibition against selling cars without airbags, or the regulation of CFCs, or asbestos in new construction, or selling live frag grenades to the unlicensed public, or a thousand other things governments around the world successfully regulate and prohibit every day.