Comment by zephen
25 days ago
> 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.
25 days ago
> 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.
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
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.