• flerp
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    1 year ago

    Yeah they tried banning alcohol… have you ever considered reading history and learning from it?

    Making things illegal doesn’t make them not available, it crates a black market for them which generates more crime and violence, makes them dangerous to obtain, and makes it so that people addicted to the substances can’t get help to get off of them. It is all-around worse.

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      1 year ago

      Alcohol is still banned in some countries… A world does exist outside US.

      Here in Australia, in NT having alcohol readily accessible was a huge disaster. There are laws to heavily restrict it in areas with a drinking problem and they do help. It was literally requested by the communities most affected. No there isn’t some weird crime syndicate

      And if you speak to social workers, they will tell you having it so easily available isn’t a good thing