Prohibition Returns!
David Harsanyi (the best man the Denver Post ever hired)
writes on
the return of
Prohibition. From people getting arrested for a BAC of .03% (a
single glass of wine, well below even the strictest legal limit), to
revoking the license of a man who drinks heavily but never drives after
drinking, to arresting bar patrons for drinking (without ever entering
cars), states (egged on by MADD—whose own founder regrets the
organisation’s neo-Prohibitionist slant) are outlawing alcohol in
all but name. To quote a Virginia police chief, you can drink at
home. Or at someone else’s home. And stay there until
you’re not drunk.
Alcohol has certainly caused a lot of evil and suffering. It has also caused a lot of good. Banning its consumption is not the way forward.
