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[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

You seem to have missed the 1001 negative side effects of Prohibition, that eclipsed the tiny ideological victory of reducing drinking.

https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/prohibition/unintended-consequences

Additionally, there is no consensus on whether Prohibition was even successful at that, owing to a lack of hard data.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition_in_the_United_States

This is quite aside from the fact that today we've figured out that criminalising drugs and users is the wrong approach and does a lot more harm than good. But we STILL have people like you.