2007-10-31 07:34:39 · 21 answers · asked by William H 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Yeah, cuz it worked so well the first time around.
Have you ever heard the phrase "Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it.?
2007-10-31 07:37:36 · answer #1 · answered by A.Mercer 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Should it be illegal, YES. It's a drug and causing thousands of death and cost the US Billions. .
Should it be made illegal again, NO. Even though I have never drank alcohol it is a fact that making it illegal failed. I doubt it will be any different if they do it again. Unless we want to live in a police state, it is imposable to make alcohol illegal and have it solve more problems then it creates.
2007-10-31 14:44:58 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nope... I don't think the age should be increased to 21 either.
If it is then it makes no difference for the chavs who ask for the drink from strangers outside the shop. They will just have to ask a person who is slightly older to get it. Except the buzz will be greater as they are further away from being legal. It will make it worse.
Drinking is a old English tradition which shouldn't be abolished, the great proportion of the public drink pretty sensibly the others will do anything to get alcohol.
2007-10-31 14:42:15 · answer #3 · answered by Sabre 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. Prohibition increased gang activity, the black market, and wasted police activity. It clearly did not work for our nation then, and I don't see why it would improve anything now.
Remember, banning a substance is almost never enough to stop people from using it, and for every person who abuses alcohol there are many others who are able to be responsible.
2007-10-31 14:38:36 · answer #4 · answered by Liberty, Equality, Fraternity 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
By your question I assume you live in the USA.as alcohol has not been illegal in the UK.
If such a move would ensure G.Bush and his henchmen expounded saner views on their foreign policies and reduced their threat to world security..............Yes make it illegal as soon as possible !
2007-10-31 16:46:34 · answer #5 · answered by harryhotun 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no not illegal but revert back to the old pub times,
and withdraw the licences of any outlet that's caught selling
booze to under aged drinkers, with out alcohol you will lose control, but greed of revenue and tax will insure that no body will try to impose a total drink ban, but it needs to be social drinking not binge drinking, some of the states we see on our streets put drinkers to shame.
2007-10-31 18:45:55 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Two words:
1) Moonshine
2) Bootleggers.
2007-10-31 14:37:47 · answer #7 · answered by Firestorm 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No NOTHING should be illegal is not mans place to tell other men how to live...I despise the stupid people of this planet going around passing laws to influence how other people live those STUPID people need to shut up and take their nose out of other peoples lives.
2007-10-31 14:40:24 · answer #8 · answered by Ben G 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Certainly not
When alcohol was last banned people started mixing their own liquor which was toxic and worse for you than 10x the amount of the normal alcohol
It could give you blood poisoning, blind you and even kill you
2007-10-31 14:38:40 · answer #9 · answered by Caz 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
No because it would lead to people making the stuff themselves and it proved in the 1920 Prohibition days in America that it didn't work.
2007-10-31 14:37:39 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋