Fascinating is the difference between MADD and the various other anti-drug movements. MADD won in the state legislatures, but MADD+prohibitions+enforcement also won a culture war. Autonomous police and prosecution enforcement rose, opinion turned against inebriated drivers, local ordinances sprang up everywhere regulating (for example) service in bars, and the need for a 'designated driver' no longer required explanation. At various times (Pandemic excluded) it has looked like alcohol consumption generally has been in decline. Elsewhere, smoking is a domain where public education, taxation, and regulation required only a bit of enforcement to engender similar cultural shifts. Other culture-changers should take note!
I like this series a lot. I’m a pretty libertine guy concerning drugs, generally speaking, but I’ve never heard the case against them stated so eloquently and empirically. Thanks.
Fascinating is the difference between MADD and the various other anti-drug movements. MADD won in the state legislatures, but MADD+prohibitions+enforcement also won a culture war. Autonomous police and prosecution enforcement rose, opinion turned against inebriated drivers, local ordinances sprang up everywhere regulating (for example) service in bars, and the need for a 'designated driver' no longer required explanation. At various times (Pandemic excluded) it has looked like alcohol consumption generally has been in decline. Elsewhere, smoking is a domain where public education, taxation, and regulation required only a bit of enforcement to engender similar cultural shifts. Other culture-changers should take note!
I like this series a lot. I’m a pretty libertine guy concerning drugs, generally speaking, but I’ve never heard the case against them stated so eloquently and empirically. Thanks.
Great insight, reminds me of something I wrote: He tastes.I see.He remembers.I dissolve. https://substack.com/home/post/p-162049290
There seem to be many parallels between the anti-drug movement of the 70s and the anti-porn movement of the 2020s.