Would you like a cigarette with that beer, Mr. President?

Prohibition was declared a failure over seventy years ago, so why are we still trying to make it work against indigenous cultures and various peoples who have chosen to intoxicate themselves with something other than beer and cigarettes? Considering the disproportionate and sickening number of minority inmates doing time for involvement with illegal drugs, how can anyone deny the racial implications of our current federal policy?

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Kaizar Campwala
3.1
by Kaizar Campwala - Jul. 29, 2009

This is a mediation on the logical hypocrisies of social taboos around illegal substances. There's nothing groundbreaking here in terms of analysis, but the point made is done well enough. Loses points for style, in not getting to the point sooner.

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