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by carapace 2056 days ago
We tried it, it failed miserably.

> Prohibition in the United States was a nationwide constitutional ban on the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages from 1920 to 1933.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition_in_the_United_Stat...

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Did you even read what I wrote?

I want to criminalize alcohol abuse, not alcohol.

Steady on friend.

> I want to criminalize alcohol abuse, not alcohol.

As leetcrew we already have laws in re: most of that, including "disturbing the peace".

> Because I watched cops do absolutely nothing...

If they're not enforcing the law in the first place, how does adding another law help?

My point about Prohibition is that this thing is cultural: Alcohol and tobacco are "in", pot and oxy and the others are "out". If you live in an area that tolerates drunken hooliganism you're gonna have a bad time with drunken hooligans.