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03/27/2003 Archived Entry: "new prohibitionists"

THE NEW PROHIBITIONISTS: Radley Balko has a great Tech Central Station piece on neo-prohibitionists seeking to tax and regulate alcohol based on dubious claims. Many of the old prohibitionists were motivated by their pro-temperance morality; the new prohibitionists seek to impose a therapeutic nanny state.

They can have my beer when they pry it from my cold, dead hands.