[mainestategop]

Prohibition, a precursor to the failed war on drugs.

Those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it.

[ml/nj]

Prohibition, a precursor to the failed war on drugs.

It's sort of interesting to me that the powers that be thought they needed a Constitutional Amendment to ban alcohol. Now some @$$hole at the FDA writes a regulation and it's a done deal.

ML/NJ

[ameribbean expat]

Prohibition: a precursor to the failed war on carbon dioxide.

The Left is filled with neo-puritanical nanny statists, ignorant underemployed do-gooders with too much time on their hands, and just plain idiots. Prohibition was the high watermark of the “social gospel” movement, they helped elect FDR, hoped he would reciprocate with patronage positions (God knows they were useless to private industry but had to make a living somehow), and he thoroughly screwed them over. Methodist women haven’t been a force in American culture since.

I lift a scotch rocks high in hope that history may repeat itself.

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

"Prohibition, a precursor to the failed war on drugs."

We should be so lucky. At least with Prohibition, Congress went through the ratification process to give the Federal government new rights and powers. With the War on Drugs, they just went and did it. Totally unconstitutional, and the result is abominations like asset forfeiture, where you can't even walk down the street with five grand in your pocket without risking it being taken from you by some larcenous cop. Might be drug-related, y'know. You're free to prove your innocence in court, too.