#prohibition

Drug prohibition has caused gang warfare and other violent crimes by raising the prices of drugs so much that vicious criminals enter the market to make astronomical profits, and addicts rob and steal to get money to pay the inflated prices for their drugs. ↗

— Michael Badnarik

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We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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Prohibition has made nothing but trouble. ↗

— Al Capone

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If you should see any Indians you will oblige me by repeating this prohibition to them. ↗

— Benjamin Hawkins

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Prohibition... goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes... A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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