"This isn't a particularly novel observation, but the world is full of people who think they can manipulate the lives of others merely by getting a law passed. There are large groups in America who, if they could swing it, would prohibit the use of everything that they didn't personally approve of - smoking, drinking, dancing, going to the movies, eating Italian salami and, if it cold be regulated, even love.
" Well, we now know how successful the Eighteenth Amendment was. It not only didn't stop anybody from drinking, but it helped to create the big-league hoodlum who today is almost as powerful as the government."
- Groucho Marx, Groucho And Me, pub B.Geis Associates, New York, 1959.
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Not only did it not STOP anyone from drinking, more people drank after Prohibition went into effect. The number went down again after it was repealed, but by then the gangsters had an iron grip on their empires and weren't going to let them die off. So now we're doing the same useless thing with our War on Drugs which is really a war on common sense.
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