Re:Why did California vote down legal pot?
by philwelch on Thursday November 04, 2010 @09:37AM
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"if we knew then what we know now alcohol would never have been legalised"
So the St. Valentine's Day Massacre isn't enough to convince you Prohibition was a bad idea, eh?
Prohibition was about criminalising alcohol, which I said was a bad idea. The problem was legalising alcohol in the first place, which would not have happened had we known then what we know now.
Also the SVD massacre was IMHO only tangentially associated with alcohol. It was part of a war between armed gangs, had it not been alcohol it would have been gambling, prostitution or something else.
However my karma has taken enough hits for today.
Re:Why did California vote down legal pot?
by philwelch on Thursday November 04, 2010 @12:15PM
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The problem was legalising alcohol in the first place
I'm pretty sure alcohol (like everything else) was legal by default, and had to actually be prohibited at some point before it could be legalized.
We have to deal with the situation we have and criminalising alcohol would be very difficult, its too entrenched.
The fact that alcohol is worse and legal is not in itself an argument for legalising cannabis.