Sentence examples for failed prohibition from inspiring English sources
The Economist believes that cocaine's legalisation would be less costly than failed prohibition.
And that means abandoning the failed prohibition model.
"The federal government needs to end the failed prohibition of marijuana by rescheduling or removing it from the list of controlled substances.
Why, with record federal deficits and states teetering on the edge of bankruptcy, are we spending billions on yet another failed Prohibition that is accomplishing nothing other than making criminals out of millions of otherwise law-abiding citizens and fueling drug cartels that threaten our fundamental national security?
Politicians should apply this lesson to today's failed prohibition and stop asking the police to risk our lives fighting quixotic wars against drugs.
Mr. Lehane said the campaign would not concern medical marijuana — which a majority of Americans approve of, according to a recent Associated Press/CNBC poll — but "whether government's failed prohibition approach should be replaced with a system that will better control it and collect revenue from it". "The issue is not 'if' but merely 'when,' " Mr. Lehane said.
The irony is that failed marijuana prohibition does nothing to protect kids.
More and more people are challenging 40 years of failed drug prohibition strategies.
"Our nation's ban on cultivating industrial hemp is one of the most irrational elements of our failed marijuana prohibition policies," Mason Tvert, Co-Director of the Campaign to Regulate Marijuana like Alcohol and the group behind Amendment 64, told The Huffington Post.
As California voters prepare to vote on Proposition 19, which would bring a much-needed end to nearly 100 years of failed marijuana prohibition in that state, it's important to pay attention to the arguments that proponents use to persuade the electorate to vote in favor of taxing and regulating marijuana like alcohol (T&R).
"Just as alcohol prohibition failed in the 1920s, it's clear marijuana prohibition is failing today," Polis said in a statement.
