A Retired Captain From Suburban Buffalo, N.Y., Tells a Local Audience That Banning Drugs Is Producing Results Similar to What Alcohol Prohibition Did, Particularly Gun Violence

Peter Christ believes that Prohibition did not end in 1933 when the 21st Amendment went into effect, again legalizing alcohol. Christ said the nation's war on drugs amounts to prohibition, including gun-toting criminals and an underworld economy similar to the one that thrived during the 12 years alcohol was banned in the United States.

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