prohibition

While researching third party vote totals for the 2008 election I came across America's oldest third party - The Prohibitionists. They received 648 votes in 2008. The 2012 platform will be written soon, but the 2008 platform is still online...

In the thread about making drugs illegal we have started talking about alcohol prohibition, especially in the early 20th century in the US. It seems to me that most people would agree that we are better off now than we were during that period in terms of things like gang wars and people dying...

If you believe there are positive aspects of marijuana prohibition, what are they and why?

From yahoo: Bill Pushed to Stop Drivers From Smoking I located a AAA report on driving distractions here Though it seems to quote a number of 284,000 distracted drivers, I'm unsure where the article gets 32,000 from. It also lists Smoking distractions at 0.9% Other distractions include...

In the early 1900s, the leaders of the US wanted to ban the consumption and production of alcohol nationwide. In order to do this, the congress and the states pass the 18th constitutional amendment. This was necessary because the federal government had no constitutional authority to do so...

Banning candy in high school has a predictable results - black market, higher prices, etc. Quoted via Reason.com http://www.reason.com/hitandrun/ CBL

Should the U.S. government bring back Prohibition? My answer to that is "yes." According to "I Love Paul Revere Whether Or Not He Rode" by Richard Shenkman, Prohibition achieved exactly what it was supposed to, which was to make it so there was less drinking of intoxicating drinks. In my...