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She said she will oppose recreational pot "until somebody can show me that people are going to be safe on the highways."<br />To Johnson, that's clutching at the last reed left to pot opponents as the social current sweeps toward legalization.<br />"It seems to me a last-ditch effort of prohibitionism," he said.

Internationally, there's been an important shift away from prohibitionism, allowing cannabis to be used for both medical and recreational purposes.

Not surprisingly, you don't entertain an end to the current regime of labor prohibitionism against low-skilled workers by reviving the Bracero guest worker program with Mexico, the only effective way of stanching the future flow of illegal immigrants.

"We should be flexible to change that which has not yielded results, the paradigm based essentially in prohibitionism," he said, saying that it "has not been able to limit production, trafficking nor the global consumption of drugs."

To begin with, maintaining a strict "no cell phones" policy in the ESL classroom can be called an absolutist approach to the issue at one end of a continuum (prohibitionism).

The End of Prohibitionism, in Jencks, Ch.; Kropf, K.

There are those Americans who view the so-called "war on drugs" as Christianity's most recent attempt to push moral prohibitionism on the masses.

Nor does he entertain the thought that, as a political cause, gay marriage might be less like Civil Rights than like, say, 20th-century prohibitionism or the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1970s--an ideological fad liable to burn itself out.

(12) The International Reform Bureau was very active in Prohibitionism, see "Proposed Federal Film Censorship: International Reform Bureau Sponsors Bill to Create and Interstate Commission," New York Times, 18 March 1921; the proposed legislation included, in article (g), the exclusion by producers and exhibitors of films "with scenes which show the use of narcotics and other unnatural [sic] practices dangerous to social morality." Needless to say, in article (i), it also excluded films that poke fun at the U.S.

Prohibitionism and, by implication, the oppression paradigm have been challenged by some international bodies as well.

: Aspects of Prohibitionism in Ontario in the 1890s" in Donald Swainson, ed, Oliver Mowat's Ontario (Toronto: Macmillan, 1972) at 156-157.