Prohibition involved decriminalization of personal possession and consumption of alcohol. Sales of alcohol were outlawed. By the early 1930s, the public did not support Prohibition, but today the majority of the American public is set against illegal drug use. Alcohol Prohibition did not directly increase crime and did decrease alcohol consumption and alcohol-relate costs. The government has a responsibility to take action on the drug problem to prevent addiction, which is a form of enslavement .
Addiction causes the addict to surrender freedom.
It causes harm not only to the addict, but society at large. The successes of European legalization experiments have been greatly overstated . Policies and experiments in the Netherlands, England, and Switzerland have increased the number of drug addicts and have escalated drug-related problems and costs.