i came on here to put up a link, and laughed to see that my last post was about supporting prop 5 in CA, which sadly didn’t pass. but the link i was mentioning was to ethan nadelmann’s op ed in the wall street journal today, commemorating the repeal of prohibition on this day in 1933, and urging us to apply the lessons of the prohibition era to current-day drug prohibition. a good read, and perhaps those of y’all who drink want to raise a glass today in celebration of your freedom to do so.
btw, the title of this post is from a prohibition-era political poem by Franklin Pierce Adams, that i also have always found applicable to our current drug war:
Prohibition is an awful flop.
We like it.
It can’t stop what it’s meant to stop.
We like it.
It’s left a trail of graft and slime
It don’t prohibit worth a dime
It’s filled our land with vice and crime
Nevertheless, we’re for it.
