Lastly, the author uses the precedent of marijuana legalization in other countries as evidence that legalization does not solve any social problems, but instead creates them.
Is this true: Drug legalization has benefits.

A: no

Over a course of days, the bank went from apparent strength to bankruptcy. Barings was Britain's oldest merchant bank. It had financed the Napoleonic wars, the Louisiana purchase, and the Erie Canal. Barings was the Queen's bank.
Is this true: Barings was Britain's oldest merchant bank.

A: yes

The American House of Representatives is due to vote today, on a resolution submitted by the Chairman of the Judicial Committee, Henry Hyde, asking Congress to launch an investigation over charges brought forward by Independent Prosecutor-General Kenneth Star against President Clinton in the Monica Lewinsky affair.
Is this true: Voting will take place in the American House of Representatives today, on the President Clinton-Monica Lewinsky scandal.

A: yes

Rather than deterring crime, capital punishment actually increases the level of brutality in society.
Is this true: Capital punishment is a deterrent to crime.

A:
no