ax Act in 1937 agreed that a general prohibition on what people could put into their own bodies was plainly an unconstitutional infringement on personal liberties. And then there's the alcohol situation. There is no fundamental reason why a constitutional amendment should be required to prohibit one chemical and not another. It is an outrage to see alcohol being so widely used every day without the government interfering with it. Of course there was prohibition which started in 1919 and ended in 1933 which caused crime rates to skyrocket. But the beer still flowed like always and the government realized it was one of those things they just couldn't control. The fact is that alcohol is directly related to so many American deaths with drunk drivers and liver disease yet nothing seems to change. It's hard for me to believe that with alcoholism so prevalent and alcohol causing so many problems such as abuse, teen pregnancy, and rape that it is not even an issue.
             Cigarettes are known to be the cause of millions of American deaths a year and are still legal. This is just another example of how "the man" decides what we can and cannot put into our bodies. I find this information to be clear and obvious for anyone to see and cant understand how nothing is done about it. By taking away a person's freedom to make his or her own decisions, the government is, in effect, dictating what a person should and should not think. As President Abraham Lincoln once said, " Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to
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