Prohibition
US Federal authorities began to enforce prohibition laws across the country on this day in 1922, banning nearly every aspect of dealing with the production, sale and consumption of liquor.
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They are last words which nobody would want for themselves, and which no parent would ever want for their daughter.
“Daniel, I’m f…ed please get me now,” was one of the final text messages 20-year-old Cassandra Vaicekonis sent her boyfriend shortly before being found dead in a spare room at a Bondi Junction party in May of last year.
Cassandra’s death is the subject of an ongoing coronial inquest and full details surrounding her death will emerge over the coming days. At this stage we know that this intelligent and attractive young woman appears to have taken a combination of cocaine, anti-anxiety medication, painkillers, sleeping tablets and alcohol on the night of May 23.
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Paul Horn says:
Ben 81 one word for you my friend - Singapore. This country has been by far and away the most successful in combating illicit drug use so much so that an Amnesty report could only criticise the amount of sedatives used such as valium in an attempt to discredit the… Read more »
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Dan says:
Give me a break BTS. You are so moralistic, it’s incredible. If someone wants to take drugs, it is THEIR CHOICE. The fact that there is violence in Mexico has nothing to do with drug users. It has to do with the fact that governments still refuse to contemplate legalising… Read more »
1. Drug prohibition doesn’t work. During the last half century, almost every country in the world signed three United Nations drug treaties committing these countries to minimise the recreational use of specified drugs. Almost every country expanded their police drug squads, rained gold bars on drug law enforcement and kept on increasing the severity of penalties for drug offences. What was the result? Global heroin, cocaine and cannabis production and consumption continued to soar while world heroin production doubled in the last 10 years.
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David says:
The evidence is absolute (based on the worldwide application of the alcohol/tobacco regulation system) that making some drugs illegal to supply for human consumption DOES work. Most people do not use illegal drugs in the countries of the world that are signatories to the UN Drugs conventions. Yes the sytem… Read more »
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