Should Alchohol be Illegal?

by **Confederate People of the United States** » Mon Sep 30, 2013 7:12 pm

I do not think so. But there are some nuts out there that think that alcohol is deadly poison after one sip and want to ban it. Should it be Illegal?

by **The Serbian Empire** » Mon Sep 30, 2013 7:13 pm

Hell no to prohibition...

by **Wytenigistan** » Mon Sep 30, 2013 7:13 pm

Fuck no.

by **Siaos** » Mon Sep 30, 2013 7:13 pm

No, I believe prohibition showed us why this would never work.

by **German-Spanish Empire** » Mon Sep 30, 2013 7:14 pm

Yes. Why?
Well call me biased but my mom is a recovered alcoholic...imagine 2 to 3 days the only person with you your sister she's 14 and your 5...alcohol is #Retarded.

by **Regnum Dominae** » Mon Sep 30, 2013 7:14 pm

by **Jerusalemian** » Mon Sep 30, 2013 7:15 pm

Hell To The Fucking No!

by **God Kefka** » Mon Sep 30, 2013 7:15 pm

Confederate People of the United States wrote:I do not think so. But there are some nuts out there that think that alcohol is deadly poison after one sip and want to ban it. Should it be Illegal?

Assuming it could be enforced effectively (in another culture perhaps)... I would support it.

Alcohol's overrated anyways. And drunk drivers kill/injure a ton of people every year...

So yeah, if I could press a magic button and make alcohol illegal with very good enforcement... I would totally do it. I don't drink anyways cause alcohol tastes like medicine anyways so...

by **Aravea** » Mon Sep 30, 2013 7:15 pm

The Serbian Empire wrote:Hell no to prohibition...

We had prohibition once and I think we can all agree that it along with segregation were the biggest fuster clucks in American history

by **New Octopucta** » Mon Sep 30, 2013 7:17 pm

Of course not. Regardless of how ridiculously impractical it would be to enforce, if we banned any harmful substance we'd be missing a significant chunk of what was good about the world.

by **Inky Noodles** » Mon Sep 30, 2013 7:18 pm

Would just cause a deadly black market to grow.

So no.

by **Cameroi** » Mon Sep 30, 2013 7:19 pm

alcohol should not be a seperate catigory from other recreationally consumed nerotropic substances. like every other so called (recreational) "drug", that is exactly what it is. nothing "should" be unlawful to possess, (as long as its posseser isn't destroying people or their lives with it, and that on an individual basis, not imposed on all of society).

what SHOULD be, unlawful TO MASS PRODUCE, is whatever a two thirds majority of the entire populace, agrees is undesirable. be that 'drugs', guns, or even automobiles.

to mass produce, NOT to possess.

by **God Kefka** » Mon Sep 30, 2013 7:19 pm

At the very least I would endorse widespread social condemnation of alcohol.

Recast its image from this ''cool'' drink that grown-ups and sociable people drink all the time to what it is... a bitter poison that tastes like medicine, has potential for addiction, causes health problems, acts as a depressant, and can cause drunkness, drunk driver accidents, loss of self-control etc...

It has to start there. Once everyone buys that, then we can talk about banning it or taxing the hell out of it even more.

Right now, too many people out there who like drinking that dangerous stuff and think it's somehow cool...

by **Cameroi** » Mon Sep 30, 2013 7:23 pm

Inky Noodles wrote:Would just cause a deadly black market to grow.

So no.

precisely as does the banning of mary jo wanna and cocane currently. precisely my point. does not belong in a seperate catigory. one prohibition is as bad as another. but prohibiting mass production is well within the reasonable perview of government (provided, in doing so, it represents the will of the people. if it doesn't, it isn't).

by **The Scientific States** » Mon Sep 30, 2013 7:24 pm

Hells no, it's a terrible idea.

by **The Serbian Empire** » Mon Sep 30, 2013 7:28 pm

Aravea wrote:
The Serbian Empire wrote:Hell no to prohibition...

We had prohibition once and I think we can all agree that it along with segregation were the biggest fuster clucks in American history

I would say prohibition and segregation appear to have went hand and hand in Mississippi. I suspect that one can cut the homicide rate in the US and Latin America by ending the War on Drugs. Prohibition strengthen the mafias that caused problems for decades afterwards.

by **Aravea** » Mon Sep 30, 2013 7:30 pm

The Serbian Empire wrote:
Aravea wrote:

We had prohibition once and I think we can all agree that it along with segregation were the biggest fuster clucks in American history

I would say prohibition and segregation appear to have went hand and hand in Mississippi. I suspect that one can cut the homicide rate in the US and Latin America by ending the War on Drugs. Prohibition strengthen the mafias that caused problems for decades afterwards.

Definitely and here

http://www.albany.edu/~wm731882/organiz ... final.html

by **Napkiraly** » Mon Sep 30, 2013 7:30 pm

Great flaming balls of fire no.

by **Cameroi** » Mon Sep 30, 2013 7:32 pm

The Serbian Empire wrote:
Aravea wrote:

We had prohibition once and I think we can all agree that it along with segregation were the biggest fuster clucks in American history

I would say prohibition and segregation appear to have went hand and hand in Mississippi. I suspect that one can cut the homicide rate in the US and Latin America by ending the War on Drugs. Prohibition strengthen the mafias that caused problems for decades afterwards.

precisely. we still HAVE "prohibition". its just no longer alcohaul in the u.s., instead its other things. also incidentally, there are different combinations of what is and is not prohibited in other countries. please lets not forget, the u.s. IS NOT the entire world (even if some u.s. politicians seem to think it should be and there is a (relatively small) portion of the american public that goes along with that thinking)

by **Frazers** » Mon Sep 30, 2013 7:37 pm

No but it does need stricter controls to prevent abuses.

by **HappyShark** » Mon Sep 30, 2013 7:48 pm

Depends on whether or not my bottling plant in Canada is ready for production

by **Rainbows and Rivers** » Mon Sep 30, 2013 7:52 pm

Not yet, you fool! We're in the middle of a very delicate campaign in which we slowly destroy the image of alcohol in the eyes of the public even as we slowly squeeze it ever more tightly with regulations. By the time it comes time to outlaw it, most people won't want it anyway and we'll have satellites and drones to keep an eye on those moonshiners.

Just don't jump the gun and alcohol will be history soon enough.

by **The Scientific States** » Mon Sep 30, 2013 7:56 pm

Rainbows and Rivers wrote:Not yet, you fool! We're in the middle of a very delicate campaign in which we slowly destroy the image of alcohol in the eyes of the public even as we slowly squeeze it ever more tightly with regulations. By the time it comes time to outlaw it, most people won't want it anyway and we'll have satellites and drones to keep an eye on those moonshiners.

Just don't jump the gun and alcohol will be history soon enough.

Um...what.

I don't see how alcohol is bad, it's been around forever. Some people abuse it, which is really awful, heck half of my family died of alcohol. But it's not a good reason to ban it.

by **Czervenika** » Mon Sep 30, 2013 8:07 pm

Of course not. History has shown us why it's a bad idea... Also, to use more modern examples, alcohol is banned in Saudi Arabia. As a result they make their own brews out of much more toxic substances.

by **New haven america** » Mon Sep 30, 2013 8:08 pm

Let's check how the Prohibition went. :roll:

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