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• Prohibition has made nothing but trouble.

  Al Capone

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• Prohibition may be a disputed theory, but none can say that it doesn’t hold water.

  Thomas L. Masson

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• The ban on sports betting does exactly what Prohibition did. It makes criminals rich.

  James Surowiecki

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• One of the things is that the good intentions of Prohibition, from reading over the years and from becoming obsessed with the research of gangs in New York City, seems to have allowed crime figures at the time, like Luciano, Capone, Torrio and Rothstein, to organize to become more powerful, which pulled all the way through until the ’70s.

  Martin Scorsese

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• Just as the process of repealing national alcohol prohibition began with individual states repealing their own prohibition laws, so individual states must now take the initiative with respect to repealing marijuana prohibition laws.

  George Soros

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• The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.

  Gary Johnson

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  Tags in Current, Prohibition

• Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

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• 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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• Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.

  Will Rogers

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