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Re:Brains on Drugs: How tinkering with consciousness became ... by mrguyorama on Thursday June 22, 2023 @05:42PM (#36439465)
I'm not in favor of banning alcohol. I just want to dispel the false notion that prohibition didn't "work", when it empirically did.

We shouldn't ban alcohol because it's a hamfisted way to reduce alcoholism and harms from alcohol abuse. However, the 1910s didn't exactly have functioning rehabilitation programs.

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Re:Brains on Drugs: How tinkering with consciousness became ... by pstuart on Friday June 23, 2023 @01:07PM (#36449611)
It might have worked if you squinted right. There was still plenty of alcohol for those of means.

Again, it came at a cost of organized crime. It was not a win.

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Re:Brains on Drugs: How tinkering with consciousness became ... by LocalH on Saturday June 24, 2023 @10:45AM (#36459096)
We don't really have a functioning rehabilitation program now. The rates of failure and relapse are not exactly low. There are also often a bunch of hoops to jump through to even get access to them, most people are more interested in being "tough on crime" which really means "authoritarian".
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