(04-14-2024, 07:46 PM)mikesez Wrote: We had the DARE program in elementary school and the JSO officer who would show up and talk about drugs and alcohol was still salty about the end of the Sunday prohibition.  He said that in certain areas on Sundays you could find people licking sterno cans to get their fix and ending up in the hospital.  he said the solution to that should have been making those anybody who couldn't go one day without alcohol stay in the hospital until their alcoholism was "cured" and that simply selling beer 7 days a week would prove to be a mistake.

Made a strong impression on me, for me to remember it as well as I do. He was a real hard [BLEEP], took a dim view of most subjects that seemed fun, yet he also thought people would be willing to pay millions for hospitals to be full of addicts that didn't want to be there.  I guess the word for that is authoritarian.