{"id":71029,"date":"2019-04-11T05:00:28","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T10:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71029"},"modified":"2019-04-11T05:48:33","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T10:48:33","slug":"a-modest-proposal-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71029","title":{"rendered":"A Modest Proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Why did Prohibition fail?\u00a0 The Hammerheads weren&#8217;t tough enough?\u00a0 They didn&#8217;t incarcerate enough people?\u00a0 <br>No.\u00a0 It failed because ordinary citizens resented being told they couldn&#8217;t engage in activities that seem normal and harmless, so they quietly rebelled in a nation-wide fit of non-compliance. <br>Same reason the drug war is failing, particularly the war on marijuana.\u00a0 Repeal federal prohibition.\u00a0 Leave it up to the states.\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2019\/04\/04\/cory-gardner-trump-marijuana-bill-1255762\">This bill might be a good start. <\/a><br>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s true &#8211; ending the &#8220;war&#8221; would end the black market, which would give us an opportunity to deal with the chaos on the border and in our inner cities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, there are wide swathes of our government that profit from that chaos.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;ll see. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why did Prohibition fail?\u00a0 The Hammerheads weren&#8217;t tough enough?\u00a0 They didn&#8217;t incarcerate enough people?\u00a0 No.\u00a0 It failed because ordinary citizens resented being told they couldn&#8217;t engage in activities that seem normal and harmless, so they quietly rebelled in a nation-wide fit of non-compliance. Same reason the drug war is failing, particularly the war on marijuana.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,367],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71030,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71029\/revisions\/71030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}