Word: volstead
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Social scientists note that punishment, to deter, must be immediate and impartial. During Prohibition, when enforcement of the Volstead Act was roughly comparable to that of the present drug laws, the nation's per-capita consumption of liquor actually increased 10%. The blunderbuss approach to marijuana creates widespread disrespect for all law among young people; perhaps worst of all, it makes it difficult for young people to believe adults' warnings about other drugs, and discourages the young who need medical help and advice from seeking...
...critics go after cigarette advertising rather than attempt to outlaw the product itself? In practical terms, any sort of Volstead-style prohibition of cigarettes would be impossible to legislate, and any such legislation impossible to enforce. For all the difficult moral and legal questions involved, the anti-tobacco forces consider a drive on marketing to be the best way to confront the cigarette...
...though the average U.S. marijuana user is unlikely to get his hands on hashish, let alone refined THC, considerable research must be done into the properties of all cannabis preparations before legalization of marijuana can be rationally considered. Action in this direction is obviously needed; like Prohibition's Volstead Act, current antimarijuana laws only result in the arrest of increasing thousands of young Americans each year without any deterrent effect. The use of marijuana is fast becoming a social phenomenon rather than a legal nuisance, but medical science and the law have not kept up with the change...
...punishable with a $1,000 fine and up to a year in prison. He had the firm support of the Justice Department, but the medical men of the Food and Drug Administration were opposed on the ground that an anti-LSD law would be about as enforceable as the Volstead Act. Chief adversary was FDA Commissioner James L. Goddard, who four months ago complained publicly about the harshness of existing antimarijuana laws. In a surprising turn last week, Dr. Goddard reluctantly endorsed the Johnson LSD bill during a congressional hearing before the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce...
...victories in decades were the 1942 election of a constable in a Kan sas township and the 1959 triumph of two town board candidates in Indiana. "I would to God we could elect one good honest dry politician," cried Arizona Evangelist Charles W. Burpo last week, but no Andrew Volstead is in sight and the party's prospects are at best as low-proof as the beverages they would serve at any victory celebration...