encourages violent and non – violent crime, contributes to moral degradation, damages the public purse” (Miron), etc. We are told that prohibition is what’s best for us. But where is the compelling evidence that public welfare is best served by prohibition? It is imperative that, especially under circumstances such as prohibition, that we as a people ask “why?”. The questioning and defiance of authority has been among the most central themes of American history. Every time a law has been changed or rights have been gained throughout our history, the questioning of authority has been the beating heart from which everything else sprouted. It indeed was the reason that our country was founded in the first place. These are values that we must not ever forget; for they gave to us the world that w

If prohibition has been this unsuccessful at eliminating marijuana, yet has been responsible for so many problems (most notably the billion dollar black

goal was to make known the fact that the legal status of marijuana effects it’s market, and that many of the null’s associated with marijuana are really because of it’s prohibition, not because of it’s existence. Regardless of how you feel about marijuana, it is relatively irrefutable that prohibition has not had a huge effect on supply or demand of marijuana. The University of Michigan

this, you should at least be ready to question prohibition’s sanctity. One thing that I must make clear is that I don’t think that legalizing will eliminate all problems associated with marijuana, but it “will eliminate most of the profit and corruption from the drug trade. Ending prohibition almost immediately cleaned up the liquor industry” (Business Week, 9/01). My overall

So, is it possible that prohibition could have been the wrong decision form the get go? I think that most people would have thought not, but after reading

market), then why would we want to keep it around? “The way to ‘win’ the war is not by fighting the alligators, but by draining the swamp” (Dordrecht). The U.S. spends so much money unsuccessfully trying to keep marijuana outside of it’s borders, yet if prohibition were abolished, the metaphorical swamp would be drained, and the black market would likely disappear before you could say “It’s prohibition’s fault”.

e live in today. With those ideals at hand, we take a look at prohibition of marijuana. When you look with some depth into the subject, you find that much of the negative stigmas associated with marijuana are in fact products of prohibition itself. Throughout this

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