Word: prohibitionists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crack dealers, like the rest of us, don't particularly want to get killed--or kill anyone else--while trying to make a buck, but since drug deals can't be legally enforced like other commercial contracts, they need firepower to back them up. The government's irrational prohibitionist policies encourage a handful of teenaged criminals to terrorize minority neighborhoods in the inner cities, while ironically perpetuating the stereotype of all African-American men as potential muggers and murderers...
According to the Commission, the law allowing the church and school veto has been on the books since 1933. It was drafted to placate the Women's Christian Temperance Union and other prohibitionist groups as America's experiment with a liquor-less state came to a close, one commission member said...