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by dragonwriter 1208 days ago
> Man, I remember the time when we had to pass a constitutional amendment to make a substance illegal.

You mean the one adopted for alcohol after prohibition started, and which made it so that we had to pass a Constitutional. Amendment to allow the substance?

We always had the choice to do that for other drugs to make it harder to legalize, but its probably a good idea we haven’t.