Harry Reid Calls for an End to Legal Prostitution in Nevada
in “dry” areas, the regularly contested referendums to go wet were unfailingly opposed by an alliance of the Baptist preachers and the bootleggers.
I have long argued that if the drug cartels were smart, they would find a way to fund the drug Prohibition advocates here. As with all forms of Prohibition throughout history, all it achieves is to take a powerful economic engine out of the hands of law-abiding business and relocate it into the hands of extra-legal operators … Criminals, in other words. That engine then works to finance the expansion of their other operations, buying them better armaments etc. Making them much more powerful and dangerous than they would or could otherwise have been.
Don’t think for a moment that modern-day drug cartels are any less aware than the bootleggers were.
