{"id":55537,"date":"2014-06-07T15:15:21","date_gmt":"2014-06-07T23:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=55537"},"modified":"2014-06-07T15:18:10","modified_gmt":"2014-06-07T23:18:10","slug":"we-dont-get-more-of-something-when-you-make-it-illegal-you-get-less-of-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=55537","title":{"rendered":"We Don’t Get More Of Something When We Make It Illegal, We Get Less Of Something"},"content":{"rendered":"

On his radio show June 6, 2014, Dennis Prager said: “If we legalize prostitution, do you think we would have more or less?”<\/p>\n

“We are getting more pot use in Colorado [since it has been legalised]. We would get more prostitution… Far more people got liquor before prohibition than after it.”<\/p>\n

“I don’t know what we have gained in the legalization of pot. If it had been legal our whole lives, I don’t know that I would be for making it illegal… Tobacco doesn’t make you stupid. The effects are ill health, many years hence. We save money because people smoke and die early.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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