Prohibition
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My grandfather was in prison during
prohibition
.
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If we truly want to make an impact on this drug crisis, we need to have a serious conversation about
prohibition
and criminal punishment.
We have come so far down the road of prohibition, punishment and prejudice that we have become indifferent to the suffering that we have inflicted on the most vulnerable people in our society.
The third thing I want you to remember is that even though we're more comfortable with this idea of "them," a set of bad guys separated from us, we are actually accomplices to them, either through our direct consumption or through our acceptance of the inconsistency between our policies of
prohibition
and our actual behavior of tolerance or even encouragement of consumption.
RNG: The
prohibition
in our constitution of cruel and unusual punishments was a response to a pamphlet circulated in 1764 by the Italian jurist Cesare Beccaria.
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