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A comment on California ballot measure to decriminalize adult use of hallucinogenic mushrooms. Parent comment
> I wish they were illegal. I don't see any societal benefit with cigarettes, and I don't drink alcohol so am only left to deal with its consequences.
Weren't the consequences much, much worse when alcohol was illegal? That was the era when the word "gangster" was invented.
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> I wish they were illegal. I don't see any societal benefit with cigarettes, and I don't drink alcohol so am only left to deal with its consequences.
Weren't the consequences much, much worse when alcohol was illegal? That was the era when the word "gangster" was invented.