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> yeah, prohibition totally worked.

>> Americans are much more compliant now

Are you saying prohibition is worth another attempt? Because we're currently in our 52nd year of the official start of the War on Drugs [1], which is just Prohibition by another name. Unofficially, the War on Drugs goes back much further, and it's a war that the government has been losing badly since the start [2]. Even per-capita, we're the biggest consumers of illegal drugs in the world [3]. So I'd be curious to hear what evidence of compliance you could give, which would outweigh the evidence of non-compliance going back to at least the Nixon administration.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_drugs

2. https://www.ahdbonline.com/articles/2053-are-we-winning-the-...

3. https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/drug-use-...




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