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To: ConservingFreedom
I'm not going to bother looking at any of your information regarding Prohibition. For my entire life, I have been inundated with the declaration that "Prohibition was a failure", and this bit of conventional wisdom is so ubiquitous that you are hard pressed to find any contrary opinion. (especially with lawmakers deliberately undermining the whole thing anyways, just as they are doing now with other issues like Illegal immigration.)

I myself noticed that we are losing *75,000 people to Alcohol every year, and I very much doubt this would be happening were Alcohol illegal.

Yes, the people who like drugs and alcohol have written for years that prohibiting it was a great mistake. As you pointed out regarding "statements against interest" I will point out that most of these "research" essays are "statements for interest" and therefore cannot be accepted on the face of them as being objectively correct. They are merely supporting the same old agenda these people have always pushed.

*I'm going to keep increasing this number till you decide to look up the actual number and correct me. Since I think you play fast and loose with the facts, I feel no obligation to be reasonable or consistent either.

240 posted on 07/07/2014 11:30:22 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp (Partus Sequitur Patrem)
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To: DiogenesLamp

Liquor use would be down a little.

Crime use would be up a LOT.


242 posted on 07/07/2014 11:31:15 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: DiogenesLamp
I will point out that most of these "research" essays are "statements for interest"

And you will provide no evidence whatsoever for your claim.

I'm not going to bother looking at any of your information regarding Prohibition. [...] I feel no obligation to be reasonable or consistent

Naturally - you're a drug war supporter.

244 posted on 07/07/2014 11:35:19 AM PDT by ConservingFreedom (A goverrnment strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them.)
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