What percentage of people smoke cigarettes compared to the percentage that do cocaine? Perhaps prohibition would dramatically reduce the number of users, even if that number is guaranteed to never reach 0?
Different drugs, which is why considerably more people smoked marijuana while it was illegal than did cocaine.
And also, at what cost? Look at how many lives are ruined because of the war on drugs. Look at how many resources are wasted enforcing it.
Tobacco usage is already a fraction of what it was decades ago.
And everything he’s saying about tobacco can be applied to, you guessed it, alcohol! So we should make booze illegal again? Because that worked out so well the first time?
(to play devil’s advocate, I also think that alcohol has a much greater case for being outlawed than tobacco for the collective harm it does to society)
What percentage of people smoke cigarettes compared to the percentage that do cocaine? Perhaps prohibition would dramatically reduce the number of users, even if that number is guaranteed to never reach 0?
Different drugs, which is why considerably more people smoked marijuana while it was illegal than did cocaine.
And also, at what cost? Look at how many lives are ruined because of the war on drugs. Look at how many resources are wasted enforcing it.
Tobacco usage is already a fraction of what it was decades ago.
And everything he’s saying about tobacco can be applied to, you guessed it, alcohol! So we should make booze illegal again? Because that worked out so well the first time?
(to play devil’s advocate, I also think that alcohol has a much greater case for being outlawed than tobacco for the collective harm it does to society)