Another Prime Example:

United States Constitution,

AMENDMENT XVIII 
Passed by Congress December 18, 1917. 
Ratified January 16, 1919. Repealed by amendment 21.

Section 1.
After one year from the ratification of this article 
the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating 
liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation 
thereof from the United States and all territory subject 
to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited.

AMENDMENT XXI 
Passed by Congress February 20, 1933. 
Ratified December 5, 1933.

Section 1.
The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution 
of the United States is hereby repealed.

Section 2.
The transportation or importation into any State, Territory, 
or Possession of the United States for delivery or use therein 
of intoxicating liquors, in violation of the laws thereof, is hereby prohibited.

And between those years, Organized Crime was born, providing illegally and very profitably what the Government, in its infinite wisdom, had made illegal.

Today, there's a "War on Drugs."

Criminal organizations and citizens who are now criminals because of this "War" are making tons of money on it.

Countries outside the US have turned over their very economic bases to providing drugs and the raw materials for drugs, because of these insane laws.

If the US Government were to buy the drugs at the sources and give them away to anyone who wanted them,

• Street prices would plummet to near zero.
• People who wanted drugs wouldn't turn to theft to get the money to buy the drugs.
• People who suffer and die from cancer wouldn't be criminals for using one of the only drugs that can combat nausea created by their disease or treatment of it.
• "Criminals" filling our prisons would be discharged, lowering costs and taxes.
• Courts' dockets would be lightened.
• Law enforcement officials would be freed up to make our communities safe from violence and its perpetrators.
• and so on....

But no, we criminalize pot and incarcerate people who could otherwise be making a living selling it to the government and paying taxes on the purchases.

Duh.....

Run the same kinds of discussion with regard to Poverty, Illiteracy, Crime, etc.

email , Subject= "The War On [fill in the blank]"

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