Ban on alcohol and cigarettes in South Africa

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South Africa law enforcement is going to have their hands full for a long time. The black market has fuelled criminal syndicates in a big way and continues to do so. Prohibition opens up all new trade routes and links between provinces and countries which never existed before. What this means is that even after Prohibition is lifted the damage is already done. You will have a much bigger increase of guns and drugs flooding in from abroad and money flooding back out made from prohibition. Whatever gains law enforcement had made before prohibition was put into place are now completely shot to hell and it will take decades for them to shut down these new networks.

What worries me is whether or not this was the plan all along and that somehow the government is so caught up in these criminal syndicates that SA is already lost.
 
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Temujin said:
Depending on what is announced, I ready to join the first anti-lockdown riot I see :giggle:
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Me, too.
Even though I've given up smoking and haven't drunk alcohol for over 20 years, I have that murderous rage against a public servant who has forced normal South Africans into becoming criminals in order to stave off possibly deadly withdrawal symptoms.
 
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Solarion said:
South Africa law enforcement is going to have their hands full for a long time. The black market has fuelled criminal syndicates in a big way and continues to do so. Prohibition opens up all new trade routes and links between provinces and countries which never existed before. What this means is that even after Prohibition is lifted the damage is already done. You will have a much bigger increase of guns and drugs flooding in from abroad and money flooding back out made from prohibition. Whatever gains law enforcement had made before prohibition was put into place are now completely shot to hell and it will take decades for them to shut down these new networks.

What worries me is whether or not this was the plan all along and that somehow the government is so caught up in these criminal syndicates that SA is already lost.
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Yes but eh eh eh when they eh eh eh smoke zols they tend to lick it eh eh eh
 
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Started playing Mafia 2 again and this quote came up, seems appropriate now...

"Look at what happened during Prohibition - a handful of poor, uneducated immigrants from Sicily became stronger than all the laws, courts, and police in the States"
 
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Quicks said:
People are becoming desperate and it's killing people: https://m.news24.com/SouthAfrica/Ne...fter-drinking-illegal-homemade-booze-20200522
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Probably methanol poisoning.

Have heard of a couple of people complain about side effects from homebrews. Mostly backyard beer (pineapple and the likes) as that's been the easiest getting into and some folks getting into distilling (they scare me the most).

The latter, with their ineptitude, will either blow up their homes or unwittingly kill someone with their concoctions.
 
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I know its been mentioned before, but must be waay back as I cant find it.

Looking for a E-cig I can buy. I have plenty of vape just looking for a back-up E-cig will buy with cbd* oil if have to.
 
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I know its been mentioned before, but must be waay back as I cant find it.

Looking for a E-cig I can buy. I have plenty of vape just looking for a back-up E-cig will buy with cbd* oil if have to.
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Lockdown: Dlamini-Zuma pushes for tobacco, alcohol ban to continue until Level 1

Cooperative Governance Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has told the National Coronavirus Command Council (NCCC) that the sale of tobacco and alcohol should continue to be banned until the country reaches Level 1 of the lockdown.

News24 was reliably told that Dlamini-Zuma was supported by Home Affairs Minister Aaron Motsoaledi when she told the NCCC this week that she believed it would be too much of a health risk to allow the sale of cigarettes and alcohol on 1 June when the country is expected to go to Level 3 of the nationwide lockdown.

This prompted a debate in the meeting, chaired by President Cyril Ramaphosa, with no resolution on the matter.

A high-ranking insider with intimate knowledge of the meeting said Dlamini-Zuma had come prepared with academic papers that argued against the sale of tobacco and alcohol during the Covid-19 pandemic, citing health risks.
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Lockdown: Dlamini-Zuma pushes for tobacco, alcohol ban to continue until Level 1
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When she lumps alcohol and tobacco together you know exactly her logic. She is applying the same logic on adults that you use on children, behave and we will give you your toys back.

Infantilism is actually a thing. So is collective punishment.

You are not South Africa's mother NDZ so please take your nanny complex somewhere else.
 
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