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Re:Oregon Decriminalized Hard Drugs by freddie_mercury on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @06:42AM (#36969138)
If the goal was to have to people drink less.... And then they drank less... How is that an abject failure?

I'm not really clear what you're trying to argue here. Could you be more explicit?

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Re:Oregon Decriminalized Hard Drugs by dvt on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @03:30PM (#36975928)
> I'm not really clear what you're trying to argue here.

Prohibition fell out of popularity, so to me it seems like it was a failure because it didn't significantly impact domestic policy in the long-term. As opposed to something like women's suffrage.

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