A Quote by Pinarayi Vijayan

We are for abstinence, not prohibition. Prohibition leads to many socio-legal problems. Wherever liquor has been prohibited, there is a tendency to consume through illegal means.

Pinarayi Vijayan

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Pinarayi Vijayan
Indian - Politician
Born: May 24, 1945

Liquor prohibition led to the rise of organized crime in America, and drug prohibition has led to the rise of the gang problems we have now.

Drew Carey

I belong to the Congress. My party has always supported prohibition, though it may not have been successful in implementing prohibition in many states.

P. Chidambaram

In the 1920s, we thought the problems associated with alcohol could be solved by police and jails. Prohibition taught us we were wrong. The strategy of the present drug war is Prohibition redux.

Rodney S. Quinn

When we finally decide that drug prohibition has been no more successful than alcohol prohibition, the drug dealers will disappear.

Ron Paul

We have to be very conscious of the fact that beneath every illness is a prohibition. A prohibition that comes from a superstition.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

The worst prohibition, it must be said, is a prohibition on thinking - and that, sadly, is what the U.S. government is guilty of today.

Ethan Nadelmann

Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.

Will Rogers

Just as the process of repealing national alcohol prohibition began with individual states repealing their own prohibition laws, so individual states must now take the initiative with respect to repealing marijuana prohibition laws.

George Soros

I used often to go to America during Prohibition, and there was far more drunkenness there then than before; the prohibition of pornography has much the same effect.

Bertrand Russell

My theory is that everything went to hell with Prohibition, because it was a law nobody could obey. So the whole concept of the rule of law was corrupted at that moment. Then came Vietnam, and marijuana, which clearly shouldn't be illegal, but is. If you go to jail for ten years in Texas when you light up a joint, who are you? You're a lawbreaker. It's just like Prohibition was. When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society, you see?

Orson Welles

Marijuana prohibition is just the stupidest law possible....Jus t legalize it and tax it like we do liquor.

Morgan Freeman

When Prohibition was introduced, I hoped that it would be widely supported by public opinion and the day would soon come when the evil effects of alcohol would be recognised. I have slowly and reluctantly come to believe that this has not been the result. Instead, drinking has generally increased; the speakeasy has replaced the saloon; a vast army of lawbreakers has appeared; many of our best citizens have openly ignored Prohibition; respect for the law has been greatly lessened; and crime has increased to a level never seen before.

John D. Rockefeller

Prohibition... goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes... A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.

Abraham Lincoln

After the war, Prohibition was passed, and with liquor no longer legally available the nation plunged headlong into the Great Depression.

Dave Barry

Alcohol didn't cause the high crime rates of the '20s and '30s, Prohibition did. And drugs do not cause today's alarming crime rates, but drug prohibition does.

James Carriger Paine

I knew that the Hague Convention prohibited the use of poison in war. I didn't know the details of the terms of the Convention, but I did know of that prohibition.

Otto Hahn

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