June 01, 2007
We already tried that
Some idiot in Fredericksburg is suggesting that we bring back Prohibition.
Say what?
No, he's apparently serious. He says that if we're serious about being a "drug-free culture" we should ban alcohol as well, and makes a swipe at tobacco in the last line.
At first glance, it's hard to fault the logic there--there is no real category distinction between pot and booze--but the logic runs both ways. If we're serious about being a drug-free culture, then we should ban alcohol. We don't ban alcohol. Therefore, we aren't serious about being a drug-free culture. QED.
It's also worth mentioning that there's kind of a series of constitutional amendments about that. We tried Prohibition for, what, fourteen years? And what did we get? Organized crime and the Kennedy family (though perhaps that's redundant). The current "War on Drugs" began almost forty years ago, and that's worked wonderfully.
I think it was intended satirically, although it was written so poorly it was hard to tell.
Posted by: Evan Donovan at June 1, 2007 10:30 PM