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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.
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.
It's my country's history with alcohol prohibition and Al Capone, times 50.
But when hundreds of thousands of Chinese started showing up in my country, working hard on the railroads and the mines and then kicking back in the evening just like they had in the old country with a few puffs on that opium pipe, that's when you saw the first drug prohibition laws in California and Nevada, driven by racist fears of Chinese transforming white women into opium-addicted sex slaves.
The first cocaine prohibition laws, similarly prompted by racist fears of black men sniffing that white powder and forgetting their proper place in Southern society.
And the first marijuana prohibition laws, all about fears of Mexican migrants in the West and the Southwest.
People tend to think of prohibition as the ultimate form of regulation when in fact it represents the abdication of regulation with criminals filling the void.
The prohibition of street prostitution also causes more harm than it prevents.
If prohibition is this harmful, you might ask, why it so popular?
Why else might people support prohibition?
Prohibition barely makes a difference to the amount of people actually doing those things.
Adam Smith talks about 18th century America, where the prohibition against visible displays of wealth was so great, it was almost a block in the economy in New England, because even wealthy farmers could find nothing to spend their money on without incurring the displeasure of their neighbors.
The trajectory of the figures' lives is presented to us as a microcosm mirroring the historical trajectory of America's teens through prohibition and its spoils, ending with the (arguable) ruin of its moribund central figures (save Deborah- a make up department fumble or intentional one wonders).
This "back-woods" period piece follows young (not so) Wild Bill as he and his mystic family dangerously run illegal Canadian whiskey across the border during America's prohibition.
This isn't "so bad it's good"--It's "so bad, it violates the Geneva Convention's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment"!
This insistence on hunting the traffickers and this blindness that does not see that it is the prohibition that creates the problem.
The characters are very engaging from the start of the picture, and it is too bad that the movie has never been released for video tape, nor is it ever shown on television (apparently due to a prohibition by the Estate of Moss Hart, the playwright/producer/director who wrote the story and first presented it on the New York stage during WWII -- the reason for denying its showing is hard to fathom more than 50 years after it was made).
Ruthless streetwise tough guy Tom Powers (a terrific and electrifying performance by James Cagney in his star-making breakthrough role) and his loyal partner Matt Doyle (well played by Edward Woods) rise to the top of the criminal heap selling bootleg alcohol for the smooth, hard-nosed Paddy Ryan (a fine portrayal by Robert Emmett O'Connor) during the Prohibition era.
JC commands the screen as Tom Powers, a troubled youth who along with partner Matt Doyle rises to near the top of the underworld during the prohibition era.
Brought into the mix of all these characters is a charming bootlegger (prohibition was still the law of the land) played by Ben Lyon.
Liquor flows freely, despite prohibition and there are several scenes of various drunken party-goers.
I was impressed by this movie's frankness regarding the life of a gangster during the prohibition era.
James Cagney gives a magnificent performance as Tom Powers, a man who started off as a petty thief with sidekick Matt Doyle (played excellently by Edward Woods) and rose to become a powerful beer smuggler during the era of Prohibition and Gang Rule.
Only, they make the big money that the circumstances of prohibition offer to any criminal.
A movie about prohibition and the mafia, made at the same time it was all going on.
It was released in 1931 as the infamous prohibition era was coming to its end.
Of course, opponents can counter with a “slippery slope” argument: Only total prohibition is a defensible line against political pressure for ever-laxer rules.
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