It’s a common sense position that those who approach the topic with a pragmatic lens has, but opponents looks at it through some supposed ‘moral’ lens, and disagree with it.
A lot of people do not know that alcohol was once banned in the US, during ‘Prohibition’, and all it did was create barons who traded in it illicitly and made millions, forming uber powerful criminal cartels. The HBO show ‘Boardwalk Empire’, chronicling the rise and fall of one of these barons, is a good place to get some education on how ‘Prohibition’ spectacularly failed.

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