You can see how this has worked throughout fairly-recent American history.
Prohibition of alcohol in the late 1920's and early 1930's- that went the way of foo-foo dust after organized crime prevailed selling the stuff people wanted to put into their own bodies (sound familiar?).
The 55 miles per hour speed limit. This was instituted back in the mid 1970's because Americans were driving at speeds most Interstates were designed for (70 mph) but were burning up precious petroleum.
Few slowed down- and the 55-MPH limit was abolished earlier this century.
Fireworks laws. I know of FEW people who obey these laws around July 4- so a few local cities are changing/reviewed their laws.
Independence-MO recently changed their fireworks laws to reflect the fruitlessness of laws few seem to pay attention to. KC-MO amended their fireworks laws last year- and Raytown-MO is looking over their ordinances regarding "illegal" fireworks too.
Maybe the silliness of marijuana laws will be reviewed next- allowing those millions of "freedom of choice" Americans to indulge freely and allow the government A NEW SOURCE OF TAX REVENUE.
That would sound to be a no-brainer- much like today's drug laws are.
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