In his mind, Prohibition created a culture of reckless drinking, and his alcoholics are not tragic heroes—Hemingway's shell-shocked stoics or Fitzgerald's "beautiful and damned".
She is a historian who studies grassroots political movements in twentieth-century America, and she has concluded that our fascination with the boozy, semi-clandestine world that Prohibition created has led us to ignore its more lasting effects.
If nearly half the adult population understands that prohibition creates property crime, why don't policy makers, the press, criminologists and NGOs involved in crime reduction and penal reform?
Think tank Transform, which campaigns for drug policy reform, said prohibition "creates a lucrative and violent criminal market" and drove resources away from healthcare and towards "ineffective law enforcement".
Even if that doesn't happen, the federal prohibition creates challenges.
In the 1920s, after birds were protected and alligators hunted nearly to extinction, Prohibition created a living for those willing to smuggle alcohol into the U.S. from Cuba.
The worst aspect of the war on drugs—I believe is the violence caused by drug prohibition, in precisely the way that alcohol prohibition created Al Capone.
It is not marijuana or coca that cause heads to roll in Mexico -- it is the inevitable black market that prohibition creates.
The artificial scarcity created by drug prohibition creates monumental windfall revenues that enable the El Chapo's of the world and their vast networks of distribution to recruit, train, fund and reward the largest private armies of killers and criminals that the world have ever seen.
To his mind the idea that "drugs are bad and bad Democrats with long hair do drugs" outweighs the reality that prohibition creates strong criminal syndicates, costs the taxpayer billions without doing much to remove drugs from society, prevents a billion dollar legal industry with massive tax yields from existing, and massively increases the rate of incarceration with a strong racial bias.
Studies in other countries have identified that cultural prohibition created barriers to discussing these sensitive terms with students [ 25, 31].
