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re: If Alcohol was illegal would there be less wrecks
Posted on 1/18/19 at 9:16 am to DownSouthJukin
Posted on 1/18/19 at 9:16 am to DownSouthJukin
If wrecks were illegal there would be even less wrecks than that. 
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Posted on 1/18/19 at 9:22 am to The_Joker
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Making it illegal would make it inherently harder to get, which means there will be fewer people drinking.
eh Marijuana is illegal and it's not difficult to get at all.
Posted on 1/18/19 at 10:35 am to BFANLC
Short answer is yes.
Long answer is yes... but....
When we had Prohibition consumption decreased dramatically that first year. Within a year or two it was back to around 70% or so of what it had been before Prohibition.
If you make booze illegal it will take about a year for criminals to really get their alcohol smuggling operations going and then its going to be everywhere. If you think South American drug cartels are a pain now, wait until they get into providing booze.
The Mafia was strictly small potatoes before Prohibition after all.
The other problem is that are probably millions, tens of millions actually, of functional alcoholics in America. If you cut off their supply of joy juice they are going to swamp our health care system to such a degree it would make the Opiate crisis look a slow day at a rural health clinic.
I am here to tell you, those people will buy their booze even if it is illegal. I hope you have a lot of jail cells to put them all in.
Long term the solution is education about the dangers of driving while drunk and spending more money on addiction therapy.
Long answer is yes... but....
When we had Prohibition consumption decreased dramatically that first year. Within a year or two it was back to around 70% or so of what it had been before Prohibition.
If you make booze illegal it will take about a year for criminals to really get their alcohol smuggling operations going and then its going to be everywhere. If you think South American drug cartels are a pain now, wait until they get into providing booze.
The Mafia was strictly small potatoes before Prohibition after all.
The other problem is that are probably millions, tens of millions actually, of functional alcoholics in America. If you cut off their supply of joy juice they are going to swamp our health care system to such a degree it would make the Opiate crisis look a slow day at a rural health clinic.
I am here to tell you, those people will buy their booze even if it is illegal. I hope you have a lot of jail cells to put them all in.
Long term the solution is education about the dangers of driving while drunk and spending more money on addiction therapy.
Posted on 1/18/19 at 12:08 pm to The_Joker
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Definitely. Making it illegal would make it inherently harder to get, which means there will be fewer people drinking.
Dude... you clearly have no idea how prohibition works. Weed is illegal and it is easier for an underage kid to get weed than it is to get alcohol.
Making something illegal DOES NOT make it harder fore irresponsible people to get. Plus, it encourages binge usage, which is what accounts for most drunk driving deaths.
The accidents caused by drunk driving aren't the people who are even remotely close to the legal limit of .08, but people who are typically extremely plastered. The problem is a lot deeper than just making something illegal, because Prohibition proved that didn't work.
Posted on 1/18/19 at 12:36 pm to BFANLC
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Teetotalling OP
Some times I hate that we are a Southern Baptist board.
Posted on 1/18/19 at 1:17 pm to KSGamecock
I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.
Posted on 1/18/19 at 3:22 pm to BFANLC
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