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To: Harmless Teddy Bear
Compare American drinking before and after Prohibition. It dropped drastically and stayed down even after Prohibition was repealed.

Since drug use has been flat for decades, it must be time to end that prohibition too.

68 posted on 04/16/2013 3:12:40 PM PDT by JustSayNoToNannies ("The Lord has removed His judgments against you" - Zep. 3:15)
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To: JustSayNoToNannies
Probably.

I have no problem with drugs being legal.

You want to indulge in a club or your home? Go ahead.

But you don't get any "diminished capacity" excuse if you if you do harm to someone while under the influence.

I was just pointing out that Prohibition did what it was meant to do. It cut drastically back on drunkenness especially in the lower class.

Compare the difference in British and American twenty somethings drinking. Generally Americans go out for a drink and go home with a buzz, the British get puke your guts out drunk.

It has become ingrained culturally in the US that getting falling down drunk is something that you should not do as a general rule.

69 posted on 04/16/2013 3:38:25 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Promotional Fee Paid for by "Ouchies" The Sharp, Prickly Toy You Bathe With!)
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