Addiction is a choice
If you are too weak to resist some chemicals in your brain that tell you to abuse a drug, then you are too weak to exist in society.
PROBHINTON WASN'T A MISTAKE, WE JUST DIDN'T ENFORCE IT HARD ENOUGH
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Prohibition is like abstinence. It doesn't stop what it tries to stop, just pushes it into the shadows, where it festers and grows.
I mean, I assume you're talking about prohibition. Probhinton is quite the typo.
@Happy Atheist
I think prohibition can work. The main problem with the 1920's prohibition was that it didn't offer compensation for alcohol vendors who didn't want to get rid of their alcohol, leading to massive pile-ups and illegal sales more out of comfort and need for money rather than anything else. This is partially due to the fact that prohibition was partially enforced by intimidation and corruption rather than as an all-out policy to be implemented. I would argue though that in many ways, the 1920's prohibition also had successes, even if it failed at its main goal, since it allowed for widespread stigma on behalf of alcohol users to this very day and led the foundations for the cheap and clean tap water we have today through the infrastructure needed for drinkable water fountains.
That being said I think it's definitely hard to ban the sale of alcohol due to the withdrawal effects associated with it, as you can't rob an alcoholic of its alcohol, you have to give it to him in continuously lower doses, though the current clean water infrastructure we have could make it easier. Besides, prohibition did work. In the 17th century what we know today as Belgium banned the sale of Jenever for 99 years. Making of it the beer city we know it as today.
I'm guessing this asshole has never known an addict. Or at the very least, doesn't consider alcoholics and smokers in his ravings.
Seems to me that enforcement was pretty hardcore, and still isn't light. And yet the problem still exists. Why, it's almost as though your way doesn't work!
Also, learn to spell, dumbass!
Alcohol prohibition gave us booming organized crime syndicates. Drug prohibition, while more justified, has given us ruthless drug cartels.
I cordially invite you to try mainlining heroin or smoking meth if you think addiction isn't real
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