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Re:Brains on Drugs: How tinkering with consciousness became ... by runsWphotons on Thursday June 22, 2023 @10:37AM (#36432814)
Prohibition actually worked relatively well.
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Re:Brains on Drugs: How tinkering with consciousness became ... by pixl97 on Thursday June 22, 2023 @10:54AM (#36433076)
It reduced harm until it started to increase harm.

At the end of the day human vice isn't going away.

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Re:Brains on Drugs: How tinkering with consciousness became ... by skulk on Thursday June 22, 2023 @10:56AM (#36433117)
It's not useful to judge prohibition in a single dimension of "work well" to "didn't work". Sure, cirrhosis rates went down significantly but organized crime (a disease of its own) was gifted a torrent of money to fuel other activities.
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