How many times do we have to try Prohibition before we realize it's an utterly stupid, thoroughly bad idea?
Sorry but O’Reilly is absolutely right on this issue. You have absolutelt no real perspective on the real harm marijuana has done to hundreds of thousands “casual” users. It has been well documented to be a gateway drug, has been clearly associated with schizophrenia and a host of personality disorders that have ruined or diminished lives. No reputable rehabilitation specialist or addiction professional condones its use. It is especially dangerous when used by adolesents. The US has declined markedly since marijuana use has become widespread. The argument that its use is a matter of “personal freedom” is not the sort of rot one should find on FR.
The key to understanding where Bull OReilly is coming from is this imo. Constitution-ignorant “patriots” need to get a grip on the concept that Obama guard dog OReilly borrows Obama’s teleprompter when Obama isn’t using it.
But seriously, we will probably never hear pro-OWG OReilly reference state sovereignty-related constitutonal statutes such as Congress’s Article I, Section 8-limited powers, Article V and the 10th Amendment in his public policy debates. I had put my faith in Fx News’s phony comfort zone for conservatives for years, but realized the error of my ways a couple years after Obama was first elected.
Actually Prohibition did what it was designed to do. Compare American drinking before and after Prohibition. It dropped drastically and stayed down even after Prohibition was repealed.
Where public drunkenness was common it became uncommon.
You no longer left work and handed your paycheck to the bartender. Yes, that happened literally.
It can be argued that Prohibition resulted in the great upward mobility that happened in the 1950's and onward.