Because Free Market

[brother_dour]

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[hardblue]

I love a story with a happy ending! :)

[hardblue]

That must actually happen a little before the ending, because in the post
they just die, unless we were premature in calling their death.

[yes_justice]

Ayn Rand walks into a cannabis dispensary. Her writing improves.

[pacotelic]

lol

[skittish_derby]

If this were prohibition, the dry politicians would say that it serves them right.

[pacotelic]

I'm pretty sure the state actively poisoned alcohol during prohibition, leading to some deaths in the 20s.

[pacotelic]

IIRC, its pretty hard to muck up distillation to create poison. The alcohol you get depends on what you put into it.

Ketchup, milk, meat, and vegetables all went from farm fresh organic for most Americans to mysterious unrefrigerated russian roulette over the course of the 19th century. An apocryphal tale has Teddy Roosevelt reading Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" over his sausage breakfast immediately before the founding of the FDA.

Now unpasteurized milk is a federal crime.

[izmeina]

What! No Jeff?

[theweaselking]

Jeff is gone, probably because he's dead because he didn't like the FDA and took untested "herbal supplements" that promised to cure his condition.

[yes_justice]

I presumed jeffbot was busily processing an external subroutine.

[lafinjack]

His writing would improve.

[moonshaz]

"They die."