80 Years Ago Today We Repealed Alcohol Prohibition…. Now It Is Time to End Drug Prohibition

NEW YORK—(ENEWSPF)—December 5, 2013.

By: Derek Rosenfeld

Eighty years ago today, the Twenty-first Amendment to the Constitution was ratified and alcohol Prohibition was officially repealed. If you only know one thing about Prohibition, it’s probably the fact that it was a tremendous failure. Making alcohol illegal led to huge increases in organized crime, corruption, and violence. For many of the reasons that led to its repeal, the same arguments can be made for why we…