Uploaded August 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Prohibition creates black markets, not sobriety—from Al Capone's bootlegging empire to black market cannabis to today's fentanyl-laced street drugs, banning substances pushes demand underground where it becomes riskier and more profitable. Learn why trying to dam peaceful human behavior usually floods everything downstream.

Articles & Sources:
fee.org/articles/6-things-we-learned-from-prohibition
fee.org/articles/want-to-solve-the-vape-crisis-end-marijuana-prohibition
fee.org/articles/prohibition-has-no-place-in-modern-law





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