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Re:100 years ago, prohibition went into effect by scarface74 on Thursday January 02, 2020 @11:29AM (#21936749)
Of course both alcohol and drug abuse are bad. But anytime the government is given more power, it’s always applied unevenly to poor and minorities.

As much as some people love their guns for instance, the NRA and conservative politicians like Reagan were all for gun control when minorities were “exercising their rights”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulford_Act

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Re:100 years ago, prohibition went into effect by nkozyra on Thursday January 02, 2020 @11:38AM (#21936849)
Believe me, I'm not arguing for legislating behavior and there's no shortage of hypocrisy when it's been done.
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