Prohibition
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Thus, the Mutawa’ah, the religious police of the Committee for the Preservation of Virtue and the Prohibition of Vice, armed with sticks and backed by police firing into the air, tried to disperse the pilgrims.
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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.
My grandfather was in prison during
prohibition.
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.
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