Daniel Okrent, author of Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition, is Jon Stewarts guest.
Daniel Okrent believes the lesson to be learned from Prohibition is that the government can’t legislate against people’s appetites. There are some interesting facts to be learned here. Carrie Nation, the KKK, Women’s Suffrage Movement, the industrial workers of the world, all got involved in what has been described the biggest political manipulation in the country’s history.
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Who would have figured I would actually learn from one of Stewart’s routines. It does confirm to me that the root of all laws is money!
So money, not alcohol is root of all that is evil?
We drink to be taxed.
Yoda What I was referring to was the government deciding to repeal when they needed revenue to combat the depression.
That was a rather amazing interview. I want to read the book now. I had no idea there was so much manipulation going on. And who were the winners? The crooks.
Soooo, base upon this, when do we legalize the drugs? And should we? Is the War on Drugs lost?
Perhaps only marijuana and tax it heavily. I would say no to everything else.
On the other hand, I think that booze was far more mainstream than street drugs. It was something legal that got taken away.