GIThruster wrote: Nonsense. Speakeasies functioned quite well that way.
You mean they "functioned well" aside from the violence/police corruption endemic in the prohibition era....I suppose you mean they didn't have too many shootouts in the speakeasy itself.
Arguing for ending the WOD and replacing it with a system of legalized licensed subject to taxes/regulation etc. as needed (like in Colorado) is what I am arguing for. Don't know what you mean by "full legalization" the experience in Zurich didn't qualify....it wasn't legalized they (the gov) just through their hands up and allowed the illegal sellers to do whatever they wanted. They didn't allow Al Capone and the other bootleggers to continue to sell hooch after prohibition was repealed; you had to have legal liquor license which most criminals couldn't getGIThruster wrote: And note, you're here arguing for what you're often telling us you won't argue for--full legalization. You've often said it's the WoD that is the trouble but now you're saying more. So which is it? Is decriminalization enough or is it not?