9. Prohibition Never Really Works
Prohibition of any substance has proven to be ineffective. In the 1920s the alcohol prohibition just groomed better bootleggers and gangsters who did whatever they had to ensure their businesses would stay afloat. The government shouldn’t be able to control a substance that shows no evidence in harming people, anyway. That being said, it has spent its time on the list of banned substances since the 1937 Marijuana Tax Act which was abolished shortly after, but still, Marijuana was placed on the current Controlled Substance Act of the 1970s by President Nixon. Despite evidence of its therapeutic uses, he chose to label it a substance as dangerous as any available. (What a shame.) From there we have seen it become a highly consumed drug in which funds the private prison system we have today.
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