Comment by cybercatgurrl
6 hours ago
rectify it how? the only thing society is really good at with regards to drugs is prohibition. you can’t impose regulations on an unregulated market
6 hours ago
rectify it how? the only thing society is really good at with regards to drugs is prohibition. you can’t impose regulations on an unregulated market
> the only thing society is really good at with regards to drugs is prohibition.
Really? Seems to me that, in general, we suck at it.
It does feel like that sometimes, but alcohol use plummeted during US prohibition.
If we carpet bomb a city and there's nothing left, does that count as a good job suppressing the guerilla insurgents? It's effective, sure ... although I don't know that drug prohibition has been particularly effective either.
Initially, yes. But as illicit supply chains were established, usage crept back up. It didn't go all the way up to pre-prohibition usage, but it got pretty close. Just look at the graph in Figure 1 in this article: https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/pa157.pdf