Prohibition Blunder @prohibitionblund2.bsky.social · 01/10/2026“We need to turn drug use into an unwelcome #health scourge battled with #education and #compassion, not punished by incarceration.” — Dr. Michael Hicks, Economist #DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugs 020
Prohibition Blunder @prohibitionblund2.bsky.social · 29/09/2026“There’d never been a more advantageous time to be a #criminal in #America than during the 13 years of #AlcoholProhibition.” — Bill Bryson #DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugs 011
Prohibition Blunder @prohibitionblund2.bsky.social · 28/09/2026“The chief cause of problems is solutions.” — Eric Severeid #DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugs 021
Prohibition Blunder @prohibitionblund2.bsky.social · 25/09/2026“The drug war was a bipartisan effort. This rhetoric of law and order deployed by #politicians won elections nationwide, from races for local council seats to the presidency.” — Dominique DuBois Gilliard #DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugs 020
Prohibition Blunder @prohibitionblund2.bsky.social · 22/09/2026“The drug war is a holocaust in slow motion.” — David Simon #DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugs 020
Prohibition Blunder @prohibitionblund2.bsky.social · 21/09/2026“If you want to get to the heart of the dope problem, #legalize it. #Prohibition is a law, in operation, that can only be used against the poor.” — James Baldwin #DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugs 010
Prohibition Blunder @prohibitionblund2.bsky.social · 17/09/2026$500 billion dollars per year in the hands of the cartels and gangs “for them to fight over on our streets.” Read the full blog here: www.prohibitionblunder.org/post/fatal-f... #DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugsprohibitionblunder.orgFatal Features of the Prohibition Blunder: Endangering CitizensThe global illegal drug market is a $500 billion-dollar-per-year industry that—thanks to Drug Prohibition—has been handed over to cartels and gangs “for them to fight over on our streets,” according t... 022
Prohibition Blunder @prohibitionblund2.bsky.social · 15/09/2026“I sit there on the bench and send these small dealers, who are black, off to prison for years and years and years. And they look at you almost uncomprehendingly. They don’t even know why we’re mad at them.” — Judge James Ford, Superior Court, Sacramento, California #EndTheWarOnDrugs 032
Prohibition Blunder @prohibitionblund2.bsky.social · 14/09/2026“[One] effect of making drugs #criminal is to drive people from mild drugs to strong drugs.” — Dr. Milton Friedman, Nobel Laureate in Economics #DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugs 142
Prohibition Blunder @prohibitionblund2.bsky.social · 11/09/2026With 300 American deaths each day due to the War on Drugs—and almost 2 million since that war was declared—the time for honesty and action is now. Find out how you can help at www.ProhibitionBlunder.org. #DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugs 031
Prohibition Blunder @prohibitionblund2.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Check out the latest Fatal Features of the Prohibition Blunder blog post! Read the blog: www.prohibitionblunder.org/post/fatal-f... #DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugsprohibitionblunder.orgFatal Features of the Prohibition Blunder: Ignoring Legalization’s SuccessesAlthough the US is still mired in the outdated and ineffective modus operandi of seize-and-destroy when it comes to drugs, there have been some heroic voices of dissent over the course of the past few... 000
Prohibition Blunder @prohibitionblund2.bsky.social · 09/09/2026“Had drugs been decriminalized, ‘crack’ would never have been invented . . . and there would today be far fewer addicts.” — Dr. Milton Friedman, Nobel Laureate in Economics Find out how you can help at www.ProhibitionBlunder.org. #DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugs 131
Prohibition Blunder @prohibitionblund2.bsky.social · 08/09/2026“Alcohol and tobacco use by teens is at its lowest point in decades because of #regulations and social norms, not #prohibition.” – Christina Dent, Curious: A Foster Mom’s Discovery of an Unexpected Solution to Drugs and Addiction, p. 157 #DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugs 021
Prohibition Blunder @prohibitionblund2.bsky.social · 04/09/2026“Under prohibition of alcohol, deaths from alcohol poisoning went up sharply. Similarly, under drug prohibition, deaths from overdose and from adulterated substances have gone up.” – Dr. Milton Friedman, Nobel Laureate in Economics #DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugs 041
Prohibition Blunder @prohibitionblund2.bsky.social · 03/09/2026As we’ve shown time and again throughout our research and content, the War on Drugs has failed, and it’s time to focus on the shift to a winning strategy. Read our latest blog, and share with those you know and love. www.prohibitionblunder.org/post/fatal-f...prohibitionblunder.orgFatal Features of the Prohibition Blunder: Ignoring EconomistsAs we’ve shown time and again throughout our research and content, the War on Drugs has failed, and it’s time to focus on the shift to a winning strategy. The country—and the world at large—cannot sus... 032
Prohibition Blunder @prohibitionblund2.bsky.social · 02/09/2026“The research-and-development teams in drug-makers’ laboratories are not trying to come up with products that are better, or safer. Instead, they are simply trying to devise something that is new enough to be allowed on sale.” –Tom Wainwright #DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugs 020
Prohibition Blunder @prohibitionblund2.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Ending Drug Prohibition is one giant leap towards restoring social order in American cities and communities. Find out how you can help at www.ProhibitionBlunder.org. #DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugs 153
Prohibition Blunder @prohibitionblund2.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Erasing Drug Prohibition will incentivize compliance with #laws, instead of violence. Find out how you can help at www.ProhibitionBlunder.org. #DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugs 022
Prohibition Blunder @prohibitionblund2.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Want to better protect kids against drug abuse? End Drug Prohibition. Find out how you can help at www.ProhibitionBlunder.org. #DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugs 011
Prohibition Blunder @prohibitionblund2.bsky.social · 10/08/2026More #Americans have died in the War on Drugs than in all our other wars combined. End Drug Prohibition. Find out how you can help at www.ProhibitionBlunder.org. #DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugs 0164
Prohibition Blunder @prohibitionblund2.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Want to replace #cartels and #gangs with law abiding companies? End Drug Prohibition. Find out how you can help at www.ProhibitionBlunder.org. #DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugs 044
Prohibition Blunder @prohibitionblund2.bsky.social · 06/08/2026The War on Drugs is one of complicity, as evidenced in VICE News' excellent 2020 video covering the rise of drug-related violence in Culiacán, Mexico, despite the surge of the global #pandemic. Read the Fatal Features #blog for the full story! #DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugsprohibitionblunder.orgFatal Features of the Prohibition Blunder: Destroying Fellow NationsThe War on Drugs is one of complicity, as evidenced in Vice News' excellent 2020 video covering the rise of drug-related violence in Culiacán, Mexico, despite the surge of the global pandemic. 000
Prohibition Blunder @prohibitionblund2.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Regulation via #Legalization: Making drugs knowable, controlled, labeled, and overwhelmingly safer. #DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugs 020
Prohibition Blunder @prohibitionblund2.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Regulation through legalization protects kids from being lured into drug dealing. #DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugs 040
Prohibition Blunder @prohibitionblund2.bsky.social · 03/08/2026End the incentives for drug crime in America. End Drug Prohibition. #DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugs 140
Prohibition Blunder @prohibitionblund2.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Have you subscribed to the Prohibition Blunder #newsletter? Be sure to sign up to get monthly email updates on all of the content we publish throughout the month! Go to www.prohibitionblunder.org/subscribe to sign up! #DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugsprohibitionblunder.orgProhibition Blunder July 2026 Newsletter 011
Prohibition Blunder @prohibitionblund2.bsky.social · 30/07/2026There’s plenty of #corruption to go around thanks to the ongoing war on drugs. Read the blog post for the full scoop. www.prohibitionblunder.org/post/fatal-f... #DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugsprohibitionblunder.orgFatal Features of the Prohibition Blunder: Inviting CorruptionOver the course of an entire year, Common Pleas Judge Paul Michael Pozonsky took cocaine from an evidence locker and replaced it with baking powder. 010
Prohibition Blunder @prohibitionblund2.bsky.social · 29/07/2026“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.” — Sun Tzu #DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugs 051
Prohibition Blunder @prohibitionblund2.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Perhaps nowhere could one of America’s most fortunate inheritances—federalism—be more valuable than in bringing actual control to the matter of drugs. Visit www.ProhibitionBlunder.org to find out how you can help. #DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugsyoutu.beThe Forgotten Blessing of FederalismYouTube video by Prohibition Blunder 000
Prohibition Blunder @prohibitionblund2.bsky.social · 27/07/2026“Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect #liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficent. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.” — Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis 031
Prohibition Blunder @prohibitionblund2.bsky.social · 24/07/2026“Prohibition is an attempted cure that makes matters worse—for both the addict and the rest of us.” — Milton Friedman, Nobel Laureate in Economics #DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugs 020
Prohibition Blunder @prohibitionblund2.bsky.social · 23/07/2026In the same way that overly strict parenting often increases rebellious behavior, a recent study by political scientist Dorothy Kronick and economist Juan Castillo highlights how militant policies often increase the violence they initially aim to curtail. Read our #blog post for the full scoop!prohibitionblunder.orgFatal Features of the Prohibition Blunder: Endangering CitizensIn the same way that overly strict parenting often increases rebellious behavior, a recent study by political scientist Dorothy Kronick and economist Juan Castillo highlights how militant policies oft... 072
Prohibition Blunder @prohibitionblund2.bsky.social · 22/07/2026“What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the #government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect #freedom to survive very long.” — Dr. Thomas Sowell #DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugs 020
Prohibition Blunder @prohibitionblund2.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Instead of endorsement of regulation via legalization, what do you see on the websites of almost all politicians and candidates today? You see the statistics of the ugly death and violent dealing—that THEIR OWN POLICIES HAVE CAUSED. #DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugsyoutube.comThe Drug War's Last Gasp: Weaponizing Its IneptitudeYouTube video by Prohibition Blunder 032
Prohibition Blunder @prohibitionblund2.bsky.social · 20/07/2026“Let’s face it: The War on Drugs was a disaster. It may be well-intentioned, but it sent millions of kids to prison, gave them felony records, oftentimes when they had no violent crimes.” — Former Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper #DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugs 084
Prohibition Blunder @prohibitionblund2.bsky.social · 17/07/2026“All #truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.” — Arthur Schopenhauer #DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugs 120
Prohibition Blunder @prohibitionblund2.bsky.social · 16/07/2026“Legalizing drugs would simultaneously reduce the amount of #crime and raise the quality of law enforcement.” — Milton Friedman, Nobel Laureate in Economics #DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugs 053
Prohibition Blunder @prohibitionblund2.bsky.social · 15/07/2026“Only three things have been shown to never work: (1) Communism, (2) One-ply toilet paper, and (3) the War on Drugs.” — Unknown #DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugs 165
Prohibition Blunder @prohibitionblund2.bsky.social · 14/07/2026As economist Tom Wainwright has observed, “In any other industry, the current approach to drug control would have been identified as faulty years ago.” What courageous and honest politicians will step forward to finally admit the facts? #DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugsyoutu.beProhibition’s Promises Versus the FactsYouTube video by Prohibition Blunder 010
Prohibition Blunder @prohibitionblund2.bsky.social · 13/07/2026“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of #evil to one who is striking at the root.” — Henry David Thoreau #DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugs 010
Prohibition Blunder @prohibitionblund2.bsky.social · 10/07/2026“If the resources now spent on criminalization of drugs were devoted instead to education and treatment, the cost and danger of drug use would be greatly reduced.” — United States District Judge John L. Kane, Jr. #DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugs 011
Prohibition Blunder @prohibitionblund2.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Thanks to Drug Prohibition, the classic, Norman Rockwell-esque picture of the friendly neighborhood cop serving up justice to citizens has become a picture of the heavily armed cop serving up citizens to justice. Read the Fatal Features blog here: www.prohibitionblunder.org/post/fatal-f...prohibitionblunder.orgFatal Features of the Prohibition Blunder: Damaging Police-Citizen TrustThanks to Drug Prohibition, the classic, Norman Rockwell-esque picture of the friendly neighborhood cop serving up justice to citizens has become a picture of the heavily armed cop serving up citizens... 010
Prohibition Blunder @prohibitionblund2.bsky.social · 08/07/2026“Believe me, after 20 years as a prosecutor and judge, I can assure you that we only catch the stupid ones.” — Judge Ronald Rose, United States District Court, Santa Ana, California #DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugs 020
Prohibition Blunder @prohibitionblund2.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Believe it or not, there’s something much worse than the failures of Drug Prohibition: Its successes. Visit www.ProhibitionBlunder.org to see how you can be a vital help in stopping this madness. #DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugsyoutu.beProhibition's Worst Failures? Its SuccessesYouTube video by Prohibition Blunder 020
Prohibition Blunder @prohibitionblund2.bsky.social · 06/07/2026#DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugs 083
Prohibition Blunder @prohibitionblund2.bsky.social · 03/07/2026“If my boys choose to go against what my husband and I are teaching them and use drugs, the very first thing we want is to make sure they don’t die. Unfortunately, death is much more likely if the drugs they get their hands on were produced on the underground market.” — Christina Dent 183
Prohibition Blunder @prohibitionblund2.bsky.social · 02/07/2026#DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugs 040
Prohibition Blunder @prohibitionblund2.bsky.social · 01/07/2026“It is difficult to understand why illegal drug addiction should be treated differently from alcoholism or nicotine addiction: all are basically #publichealth problems.” — United States Court of Appeals Judge Juan Torruella #DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugs 030
Prohibition Blunder @prohibitionblund2.bsky.social · 30/06/2026“The advocates of the status quo stand firmly against any full or open discussion of #federal drug #policy, but what we really need to do is explore our options realistically, and tell each other the #truth.” — Judge James P. Gray #DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugs 020
Prohibition Blunder @prohibitionblund2.bsky.social · 25/06/2026“What will it take for decision makers to display the wisdom and garner the #courage to end the disastrous #WaronDrugs and responsibly take charge of drug production and trade instead of leaving it in the hands of extremely dangerous and powerful international #criminal organizations?” — J. Dhywood 052
