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Abolitionists triumphed in Republican success and were causes of it, is as absurd as to call Prohibitionists successful if, after countless efforts totally to prohibit the liquor traffic, and after savage denunciations of those who try to regulate it, they should then turn round and form a comparatively insignificant portion of a victorious high-license party.
The Abolitionists Together With Personal Memories Of The Struggle For Human Rights
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I am talking, of course, about the Drug Prohibitionists: the gaggle of politicians, bishops and journalists who still insist that the only way to deal with the very widespread drug use in our societies is for it to be criminalized, where it is untaxed, unregulated, controlled by armed criminal gangs, and horribly adulterated.
Johann Hari: Drug Warriors -- It's Time for You to Go to Rehab Johann Hari 2010
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Prohibitionists have been using the "Gateway Drug" scare for years to frighten the public about legalization.
Russ Belville: Top Ten Cannabis Science Stories of 2011 Russ Belville 2011
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Prohibitionists portrayed opium smoking as a habit below the respectability of "white" men.
John W. Whitehead: America's Longest Ongoing War: The War on Drugs John W. Whitehead 2012
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Prohibitionists have been using the "Gateway Drug" scare for years to frighten the public about legalization.
Russ Belville: Top Ten Cannabis Science Stories of 2011 Russ Belville 2011
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I am happy to set up Prohibitionists 'Anonymous, where they can confess the fears that have led them to this dark place.
Johann Hari: Drug Warriors -- It's Time for You to Go to Rehab Johann Hari 2010
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Prohibitionists will tell you that they are doing a great thing by making the world aware of many of the atrocities committed against people in the sex industry worldwide.
Survivors, trafficking and Piggybacking politics « Bound, Not Gagged 2009
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I am happy to set up Prohibitionists 'Anonymous, where they can confess the fears that have led them to this dark place.
Johann Hari: Drug Warriors -- It's Time for You to Go to Rehab Johann Hari 2010
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I am talking, of course, about the Drug Prohibitionists: the gaggle of politicians, bishops and journalists who still insist that the only way to deal with the very widespread drug use in our societies is for it to be criminalized, where it is untaxed, unregulated, controlled by armed criminal gangs, and horribly adulterated.
Johann Hari: Drug Warriors -- It's Time for You to Go to Rehab Johann Hari 2010
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Prohibitionists have been using the "Gateway Drug" scare for years to frighten the public about legalization.
Russ Belville: Top Ten Cannabis Science Stories of 2011 Russ Belville 2011
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