Addiction to alcohol is called alcoholism. During prohibition of alcohol, we learned that one can not cure addicts by making their drug illegal. (As you all know, an adult addict has to truly want to be helped before it is possible to help the addict.)
All prohibition does is compound the problem.
By making the drug used by the addict illegal:
people still become addicted to the drug,
the amount of drugs available does not change,
we reward bad people with huge drug profits,
bad people tempt good people with huge bribes,
bad people use guns to protect their profits, and
our prisons become full of low level drug dealers and users.
IT IS TIME TO STOP PROHIBITION.
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