PROHIBITION's affect today
Prohibition had some pretty significant consequences, most short term
but the long term consequences effect us today. The most prominant
examples of a long term consequence from prohibition is the
illegilazation of marijuana. The short term consequence of organized
crime has bled into our war on weed, but instead of gangsters like Al
Capone, we have groups like the Crips. These violent gangs are funded
mainly on the distribution of marijuana throughout the area where
their gang resides. The development of organized crime from the 1920s
has evolved into these gangs, and are virtually running our country
through the streets. As of 2006, Los Angeles held 79,668 gang members,
which consisted of 217 different Crip gangs, with 17,542 members.
Along with the increased rate of crime, our country has seen the
largest incarceration rate we've ever seen since the prohibition era
itself. This all started when Richard Nixon declared the war on drugs
in 1971, and the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984. These two acts have
initially begun a second age of prohibition for our country, but we've
replaced alcohol with weed. Our country needs to look back at our own
history, and realize the pattern that we're leading ourselves deeper
into. As Milton Friedman said, "Al Capone epitomizes our earlier attempt at Prohibition; the Crips and Bloods epitomize this one."
but the long term consequences effect us today. The most prominant
examples of a long term consequence from prohibition is the
illegilazation of marijuana. The short term consequence of organized
crime has bled into our war on weed, but instead of gangsters like Al
Capone, we have groups like the Crips. These violent gangs are funded
mainly on the distribution of marijuana throughout the area where
their gang resides. The development of organized crime from the 1920s
has evolved into these gangs, and are virtually running our country
through the streets. As of 2006, Los Angeles held 79,668 gang members,
which consisted of 217 different Crip gangs, with 17,542 members.
Along with the increased rate of crime, our country has seen the
largest incarceration rate we've ever seen since the prohibition era
itself. This all started when Richard Nixon declared the war on drugs
in 1971, and the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984. These two acts have
initially begun a second age of prohibition for our country, but we've
replaced alcohol with weed. Our country needs to look back at our own
history, and realize the pattern that we're leading ourselves deeper
into. As Milton Friedman said, "Al Capone epitomizes our earlier attempt at Prohibition; the Crips and Bloods epitomize this one."