Alcohol prohibition most of everyone agreed for prohibition in order to pass 18 th amendment Organized crime came along prohibition is not the best way to counteract drugs National minimum drinking age act of 1984 Purchase and Public Possession of alcoholic beverages restricted to 21 or over still says nothing about consumption Federal Aid Highway Act Minimum drinking age is a State Law All states eventually adopted a state law because they would lose highway funding if they didn t Prohibition leads to violence because it drives the market underground Exceptions Religious purposes Communion wine Medical purposes whiskey used as medicine walgreens private clubs in privacy for work purposes politicians Marijuana is substituting alcohol in early research better medical marijuana laws are lowering traffic fatality rates The War on Drugs president Nixon but REALLY got started with president Reagan republicans and democrats have played a part US spends 50 billion a year fighting war on drugs Federal Stater Local We spend as much money fighting the WoD as we do buying drugs drugs have a HUGE markup you cant really We d have to capture over of ALL drug shipments to reduce profits Latent Consequences 1 Lower quality drugs 2 Increased Crime homicide 3 Increased Incarceration rates 4 5 6 7 8 a Dealers 20 vs Consumers 80 are locked up Entrenchment of the Racial Caste System Destruction of families Loss of education Geographic Strife Pain medicine shortages US consumes 95 of the world s morphine
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