75 years since prohibition

[SLCPUNK]

Didn't change much, fuckin crazy still makes wine in his bathtub!

[*Timothy*]

Didn't change much, fuckin crazy still makes wine in his bathtub!

That stuff isn't half bad.

[fuckin crazy]

I think the bathtub stuff is the reason I'm loosing my sight, so I've been looking online for a 'still for the stove top. Gonna make me some white dog.

[lynn1961]

Yep, all drugs. Thoughout all of history, drugs were legal. It has only been for the last 80 or 90 years that they were made illegal. People have always used them, and they always will.

The only thing the prohibition does is manufacture a criminal class of otherwise law abiding citizens ... and of course, a brutal and violent distribution system.

Very good point!!  A lot of the illegal drugs, today, supposedly used to be sold over-the-counter at local drug stores, for medicinal purposes, from what I've heard and understood. 

I'm one who believes in legalization - I think there'd be a lot less problems in regard to drugs.  We all want what we can't have, right? 

I'm a smoker, too, and I'm starting to feel like there's a new prohibition starting! 

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[fuckin crazy]

^ Too, as CDE wrote, the taxes, if drugs were legal, could be used for educational resources for children, and rehabilitation services for addicts.

Since, 50% of the prison population is incarcerated for drug related crimes, a good chunk of the money spent on the Prison Industrial Complex could be used for the aforementioned programs.

[polluxlm]

It's okay for you to drink your drug. We meant those other drugs, those non-tax drugs. Those are bad for you.

[Albert S Miller]

^ Too, as CDE wrote, the taxes, if drugs were legal, could be used for educational resources for children, and rehabilitation services for addicts.

Since, 50% of the prison population is incarcerated for drug related crimes, a good chunk of the money spent on the Prison Industrial Complex could be used for the aforementioned programs.

Not to mention cutting the crime rate.

[Albert S Miller]

I had a great uncle who used to own a bar in Wisconsin back in the day. My father once in a while would be along for the ride when my grandfather paid visit for a quick brew I suppose.  Anyway one day my father met Ralph Cappone (brother to Al) when he was there for a visit with gramps and it was on that day that Ralph gave my father a toy in which my father still has in his possesion today.  Wow!!  Al being one of the most notorious gangsters during prohibition  and my father has this toy given to him by his bro, I've just always thought it was pretty cool so thought I would share. huh!!

[GeorgeSteele]

^ Too, as CDE wrote, the taxes, if drugs were legal, could be used for educational resources for children, and rehabilitation services for addicts.

Since, 50% of the prison population is incarcerated for drug related crimes, a good chunk of the money spent on the Prison Industrial Complex could be used for the aforementioned programs.

Not to mention cutting the crime rate.

A cop I know is adamantly against legalization because of all the law enforcement jobs that would be lost.

[fuckin crazy]

^ Too, as CDE wrote, the taxes, if drugs were legal, could be used for educational resources for children, and rehabilitation services for addicts.

Since, 50% of the prison population is incarcerated for drug related crimes, a good chunk of the money spent on the Prison Industrial Complex could be used for the aforementioned programs.

Not to mention cutting the crime rate.

A cop I know is adamantly against legalization because of all the law enforcement jobs that would be lost.

Prison Industrial Complex ... It needs to be abolished.