Would you support prohibition of alcohol?

[Yaroslav]

So you prefer to sweep things under the carpet and ignore them rather than deal with the problems? If people are going to drink any way, why make it illegal? What´s the point? Just a big waste of time, money and jail space.

The alcoholics and criminals will keep drinking. But majority of people will stop drinking as the statistics of prohibition have shown in the past.

How else would you deal with the problem without banning alcohol?

[Vixen]

The alcoholics and criminals will keep drinking. But majority of people will stop drinking as the statistics of prohibition have shown in the past.

I doubt it. I would not stop dinking. Neither would my friends or family or most of the drinkers I know. None of us are alcoholics or criminals.

[Vixen]

How else would you deal with the problem without banning alcohol?

I don´t know. But prohibition will only cause more problems.

[2Cool]

Making it illegal would increase crime. Alcohol is very easy to make as well which means that not only will organized Crime will become more profitable and powerful such as the Mafia or the Cartel but you will also be increasing street crime since anybody with 2 brain cells can make beer. There's really no benefit to doing so. Drunk driving can be mitigated through many different ways without banning alcohol: through education (introduce concepts such as designated driver), better public transport, harsher punishments for DUIs, or if you want to be extreme you could just equip all cars with a Breathalyzer. Alcohol is also ingrained in society, especially Western Society and some alcoholic beverage such as wine are actually good for your health in moderation. You will have an incredibly hard time trying to convince Europe to give up it's traditions in beer, wine, and spirit making. I thought this was a European preservation website? Good job destroying a large component of European culture.

You also have the issue that jails are already overcrowded as it is. Do you really want to add more people in jail for doing petty crimes such as drinking a beer? I don't want my tax dollars to be wasted on such crap either.

In Portugal they decriminalized all drugs and guess what happened? Drug usage went down. if you want drug use to decrease the solution is not to ban them. It's to treat the addicted instead of putting them in jails, punish the suppliers, and educate the mass population.

[Osprey]

No.
Less Laws, Less Crime and Better People.
More Laws, More repression, More Frustration and Badder People.

[Aces High]

I am 100% against alcohol and believe the drink is straight from hell.

Well when your balls drop and your zits fade and you grow up.....you will find that alcohol if used properly is quite pleasant.
It oils the wheels of social intercourse.....compliments a decent meal etc.

I would like to sea religion banned myself......and jehovah's muslims or jehovah's internet christians boiled in chip fat,because they cause more problems than booze.

[Quorra]

Boozing every weekend is a huge problem in our society. Life's better without it. I voted yes.

[Skandi]

never enact a law you cannot enforce. since there is no way to enforce a law of 0 alcohol then it should never be created.

pretty much anything can be fermented in any container, even using bread yeast or natural yeasts you get to 10% or so, a domestic freezer can get that SAFELY to 20-25% depending on it's min temp.

I don't drink often, but if you made it illegal I would almost certainly drink more!

[Anarch]

I am 100% against alcohol and believe the drink is straight from hell.

I want to see what others think.

I'd like to force feed it to you in lethal quantities, for actually advocating that my freedom be violated.

[The Lawspeaker]

The prohibition of alcohol was very " successful": it ensured corruption and organised crime. The war on drugs is another one of those follies.