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Perhaps we should listen to some of our great thinkers in the United States as they expound <br />on U.S. drug policy. Albert Einstein had this to say about prohibition: <br />The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the <br />Prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government <br />and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced It is an open <br />secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this country is closely connected <br />with this. ,65 <br />Albert Einstein, 1921 <br />Albert Einstein 1921: Talking about our prohibition No. Einstein was talking about the <br />prohibition our grandmothers and grandfathers had the good sense to do away with in 1933. alcohol <br />prohibition. <br />There is little difference between alcohol prohibition and drug prohibition but what <br />difference exists made things better under alcohol prohibition. For instance with alcohol prohibition <br />we didn't arrest users, only sellers and distributors. The drive to arrest drug -users came with the <br />Reagan Administration. So now, we enforce a policy that says we have to arrest our children in order <br />to save them. <br />When will we ever learn? <br />This is a picture taken in Boston, in <br />front of Copley Plaza during 1932, <br />one year before that nasty law fell. <br />It's a picture of those folks who <br />were probably the most responsible <br />for ending that sad stain on <br />American history; members of the <br />Women's Organization for <br />National Prohibition Reform. Why <br />would women want to end alcohol <br />prohibition? They wrote their <br />reason right on the side of their car. <br />"SAVE OUR CHILDREN! <br />STAMP OUT PROHIBITION! ,66 <br />r vr.rneh1nmwe ,fmhih*ksand I'm her.roIrIY yni <br />ihi. i. the umed.mn shirrs...... <br />That is all we are saying at LEAP, "Save our children <br />stamp out prohibition!" <br />19 <br />