Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2014 1:19 pm
Comparing alcohol Prohibition with the arguments for keeping bud illegal.
How about all those bullet- and gangster-related deaths, though?
"When you look back at Prohibition, what you see is that per-capita use of alcohol during Prohibition dropped more than 50 percent; as a result of that, alcohol-related deaths dropped considerably as well," said Stuart Gitlow, president of the American Society of Addiction Medicine. "Prohibition was an enormous public health success."
How about all those bullet- and gangster-related deaths, though?