“of course booze is ahead it’s legal in all 50 states.”
We had a much higher muder rate during Prohibition than we do now. We also had a much higher murder rate during the 80s and 90s when marijuana prohibition was in full swing.
That doesn’t necessarily mean prohibitions CAUSE higher rates of murder. It does, however, flush your agument down the crapper.
Murder rates have little to do with alcohol or marijuana. Urbanization, lack of law enforcement, gang-activity, and even weather....have more of an influence than anything else.
I lived in the DC area in the 2010 to 2013 period. We had a major blizzard period where for about ten days...lot of snow was on the ground and temperatures were below 32 degrees. News folks in the region reported that it was odd....not a single shooting or murder was reported in DC in that period. As soon as the snow melted and we got back up to around 40 degrees....murders started up again.
The rate of alcoholism did go down during prohibition. I’m all for it being legal but the resulting problems of alcohol and drug usage is epidemic.