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| This point of view is consistent with her arguments against any relaxation in prohibitionary drug laws: she cites fierce opposition to legalization proposals by those who in her view best know the realities of drug use and its effects: drug treatment professionals and leaders in the African American communities bearing the destructive brunt of drug sales, the associated violence, and high levels of crack use. It is common these days to chatter about smaller government and individual responsibility, but we are actually living in increasingly prohibitionary times. And yet the rapid passage of the 18th Amendment, the struggles over its enforcement, and the continued presence of prohibitionary impulses regarding other substances surely indicate that the victory was incomplete. |
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