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Alcohol-Related Deaths Surge to Nearly 500 a Day, CDC Says

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rpmisms wrote: post #51
DinaCoder99 wrote: post #49

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No, that's just not true. And besides, that seems like a small concern compared to the enormously destructive effects alcohol has far from any organized crime. A wildly entertaining effect to be sure, but not one that touches the lives of every day people like alcohol does.

Here's an article about how it did: https://www.history.com/topics/roaring-twenties/how-prohibit... And another from the literal mafia museum: https://prohibition.themobmuseum.org/the-history/the-rise-of... Don't move the goalposts. > the idea that it was some kind of obvious catastrophe is nothing short of ridiculous It was literally an unmitigated catastrophe, which is why it was the only constitutional amendment t…

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Re: Alcohol-Related Deaths Surge to Nearly 500 a Day, CDC Says

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peteradio wrote: post #78
rpmisms wrote: post #57

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Have some marijuana and alcohol. Good results for me were two beers and a few puffs.

This has me cracking up. Problems with alcohol? Have you tried smoking pot at the same time?

If you want the effects of alcohol without the downside, this is a much healthier way to get stronger effects. That's pretty reasonable, no? I'm not suggesting this as treatment for an alcoholic.

Re: Alcohol-Related Deaths Surge to Nearly 500 a Day, CDC Says

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DinaCoder99 wrote: post #81
rpmisms wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Here's an article about how it did: https://www.history.com/topics/roaring-twenties/how-prohibit... And another from the literal mafia museum: https://prohibition.themobmuseum.org/the-history/the-rise-of... Don't move the goalposts. > the idea that it was some kind of obvious catastrophe is nothing short of ridiculous It was literally an unmitigated catastrophe, which is why it was the only constitutional amendment t…

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I'm not going on an academic deep dive to prove that the mob in America was catapulted to power by prohibition. It's self-evident, and continues to be so as you go deeper.

Re: Alcohol-Related Deaths Surge to Nearly 500 a Day, CDC Says

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khazhoux wrote: post #29
readthenotes1 wrote: post #17

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I think people are missing your reference to the cases of people who had covid as the cause of death on their birth certificate and things like "headshot wound " as a contributing factor...

Do you really believe that happened? Or rather, putting aside the small number of coroners who might be criminally fraudulent, do you really think that was a thing?

I believe that some people will do things surprising to me when it means money for them or their organization.

A recent case in point are the people in charge of the Harvard medical School cadavers who sold the organs on the sly, but you could probably find other examples of cases where monetary incentives distort what we were consider commonplace values

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