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How Today's Pot Debate is Like the Fall of Prohibition

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By John R. Lamb

San Diego CityBeat | October 7, 2009

Law-enforcement maverick Norm Stamper noted "striking" parallels between Prohibition of a bygone era and today's drug debate. "Major difference? It took us only 13 years to end the former" over "essentially identical" reasons: violence, overdose deaths on bad "bathtub gin," public health and revenue.

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Tags: Drugs, history, Marijuana, Norm Stamper, Prohibition, public policy issues

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