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Keep Ending Prohibition

10 Comments / Good Ideas / By Beth Comery / 12/05/2010 / LEAP, Prohibition, prohibition ends

Look how happy these people are. They are celebrating the ratification of the 21st amendment ending Prohibition. On December 5, 1933 the Noble Experiment was deemed a complete failure when it turned out that normally law-abiding citizens would gladly engage in criminal behavior just to get a dry martini. Lessons learned? Zero. Perhaps we just …

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Protect Our Youth

Leave a Comment / Criminal Justice, Good Ideas / By Beth Comery / 12/08/2008 / drug prohibition, Eric Sterling, Froma harrop, LEAP, Prohibition, War on Drugs

Well, I’ve been riding this hobbyhorse for a while now and it turns out I have an ally over at the Providence Journal — the much smarter and more articulate columnist Froma Harrop. In yesterday’s paper, she blasted the foolish and wasteful ‘War on Drugs’ and found quite a bit of support in a recent …

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