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Re:Prohibition was primarily the work of one pressure group by highCs on Monday October 19, 2015 @06:33PM (#10416270)
> the demonization of the drugs

It keeps the number of drug addicts low and then makes the harm and safety problem less important at the same time?

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Re:Prohibition was primarily the work of one pressure group by ArkyBeagle on Monday October 19, 2015 @06:57PM (#10416361)
How would we know it actually does that? Somewhere between 50-90% of high school seniors in the late '70s smoked pot at least once.

The problem with demonization in general is that it requires willing suspension of disbelief, which is brittle.

Please remember also that Nixon's original WOD happened because lots of young people were coming back from 'Nam strung out.

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Re:Prohibition was primarily the work of one pressure group by rco8786 on Monday October 19, 2015 @11:55PM (#10417327)
> lots of young people were coming back from 'Nam strung out.

It's quite possible that we saw a bunch of boys coming back "strung out" from the most psychologically damaging war in the country's history, not smoking pot.

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Re:Prohibition was primarily the work of one pressure group by ArkyBeagle on Tuesday October 20, 2015 @10:12AM (#10419229)
The concern was over the alarming percentage on heroin.
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Re:Prohibition was primarily the work of one pressure group by baddox on Monday October 19, 2015 @06:44PM (#10416314)
Prohibition might reduce the total number of people who have ever tried a drug, but I very highly doubt it reduces the number of people addicted to a drug. It could just as easily increase the number of addicts.
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