03-28-2009, 07:58 PM
Obie, I was being dramatically hyopthetical on all 50 but you just said it yourself: Straight-laced Utah, after all these years, has become sane on the issue of alcohol so who is to say what they may do next? So, if 26 states "Just Say Yes", it's still a majority. But putting that aside, let's again look at alcohol in American history. Prohibition began with an Amendment to the Constitution, and it ended with an Amendment to the Constitution. There was no Constitutional Amendment on drug prohibition. It was just something that was pushed through on the heels of ignorance and unfounded hysteria, and was enacted with little more than a signature. As such, it can end just as easily with honesty, pragmatism, and another signature. You may also want to consider the subject of "dry states". Kansas was but I don't know about now, and when I was in Virginia in the 60's, all you could get was "near beer". It's called States Rights.