Not everyone goes from casual drinking to full-on life destroying alcoholism. Just as not everyone who gambles loses their house to the casino, or even does a line of cocaine and starts turning tricks for their next fix.
We tried prohibition during an extremely prude moment in the USA. It failed so miserably that we passed a constitutional amendment to revert a previous amendment, which is pretty incredible.
The stories of people who let any vice ruin their lives are powerful and important to know. But don’t let stories restrict the freedom of everyone. If alcohol was so bad then we never would have legalized it after prohibition. Everything is a trade off, and it’s better to let people make their own decisions than to throw people in jail.
It was not so much extreme prude moment, but more of massive problems with pervasive alcoholism moment. People drinking out their whole salaries leaving dependents hungry and obviously a lot of violence - street and domestical.
Prohibition did not worked just like drug war don't work, but it did not started on whim for no reason.
We tried prohibition during an extremely prude moment in the USA. It failed so miserably that we passed a constitutional amendment to revert a previous amendment, which is pretty incredible.
The stories of people who let any vice ruin their lives are powerful and important to know. But don’t let stories restrict the freedom of everyone. If alcohol was so bad then we never would have legalized it after prohibition. Everything is a trade off, and it’s better to let people make their own decisions than to throw people in jail.