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Prohibition
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Alcohol is a far greater killer than all opiates. You can buy alcohol on any street corner throughout the world. It gets your brain, your liver. It destroys your morals, destroys your vitality, kills the sexual potential, and you become sluggish. It was a great pity that Prohibition failed. The experiment was too radical. Instead of barring it altogether, the dispensation of alcohol should have been under prescription, or some other control. Prohibition was one of the worthiest attempts of a gro
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― My Wicked, Wicked Ways
― My Wicked, Wicked Ways
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Worse, what does the term 'treatment' mean in the context of the war on drugs? It means the naked use of force by doctors. Sally Satel — Yale University psychiatrist, 'drug addiction treatment expert, and the star 'medical' witness for the drug warriors — proudly proclaims: Force is the best medicine.
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