• 0x0@programming.dev
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    19 hours ago

    And prohibition does work in some cases. See, cigarettes. Smoking has been in the fall for a long time especially among the young.

    Prohibition only feeds black markets.

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      14 hours ago

      Except it doesn’t, like with their smoking example.

      Or, if you’d like another… there are age requirements for buying alcohol. Based on your comments, there must be a massive thriving black market for selling moonshine to kids, yet I’ve seen zero evidence of such a thing.