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Re:Malaysian Grandfather Is Facing Death for Weed by nashashmi on Friday February 26, 2021 @12:01PM (#26276953)
There were laws, a constitutional amendment in fact, against alcohol. Civil disobedience did away with that. As seems to be the case with legalizing drugs, where mass incarcerations are doing away with those laws.
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Re:Malaysian Grandfather Is Facing Death for Weed by petre on Saturday February 27, 2021 @01:17AM (#26283092)
Gorbachev had an anti alcohol campaign in Russia as well. While it had an impact in reducing male mortality and violent crime, it had some ill effects as well. Destroying vineyardsn in tge Caucaz and Moldova was kind of overdoing it.

http://soviethistory.msu.edu/1985-2/anti-alcohol-campaign/

I really like thevRussian humor part. They nicknamed Gorbachev mineral’nyi sekretar’, mineral-water-drinking secretary and the campaign was known as the dry law.

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