Why prohibition didn't work

[OffWithTheirHeads]

[noamnety]

1. I'm with them.

Don't be touching my liquor, get yer own!

[Roon]

2. Someone posted that picture on DU before and the OP got flamed

I forget why, though.

[Bucky]

3. Actually Prohibition worked remarkably well.

During the 1920s there was a remarkable reduction in the consumption of alcohol and an attendant reduction in alcohol-related accidents. There's also a strong case to be made that the shifting of resources into alcohol sales and distribution by organized crime also forestalled the expansion of heroin, opium, and cocaine distribution networks in the United States. Other industrialized nations in the world who didn't go for the nanny state liquor busting of Brother Jonathan saw dramatic rises in the incidence of these harder narcotics. The same substances didn't really grow in market share in the US until after Prohibition was repealed.

And as for that photo you're ridiculing, let me just say that I'd totally hit two of those three chicks on the front row and either one of the two standing up in the back.

[Aristus]

4. How much would you have to drink first?

:P

[Bucky]

5. Well, since they say they'd refuse to even kiss me if I've been drinking...

I guess the proper question is how much would they have to drink first. Now mind you, this is sheer speculation on my part, but I'm guessing that for dosage among the five ladies I've deemed doable--and going in a clockwise direction from the gal in the upper left hand corner--we're talking two margaritas, five Shiner Bocks, half a dime bag of Maui Wowie, three fresh psilocybin mushrooms, and two double-shot tequila suppositories.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

6. I'd need a few shots.

Enough to work up the courage, but not so much that I couldn't swing the shovel.

[baldguy]

7. How much would THEY have to drink first?

[Swede]

8. It was them damn Canadians.

http://www.canadiandesignresource.ca/officialgallery/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/i+can+afford+canadian+whiskey.jpg