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Originally Posted by llasram
The United States’ experiment with criminalizing alcohol during the Prohibition didn’t stop people from drinking – it just made criminals of those who drank. The law ran counter to moral intuition and lost. Moreover, the distributed, victimless nature of the crime made it ultimately impossible to enforce effectively. Alcohol consumption in the US went up during the Prohibition.
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Could one not use exactly the same argument about any drug use (and let's not forget that alcohol is a drug)? Should people who use cannabis or cocaine be "criminalised"?