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Saturday, 09 February 2008

Alcohol didn't cause the high crime rates of the '20s and '30s, Prohibition did. And drugs do not cause today's alarming crime rates, but drug prohibition does.

– US District Judge James C. Paine, addressing the Federal Bar Association in Miami, November, 1991

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