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The Case for Prohibiting Vice | National Affairs

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Once you notice the proliferation of vice, it is hard to stop seeing it. Sometimes the drive-through operator is stoned; other times, it's the barista. A young man you know spends all his money on sports-gambling apps and goes five figures into debt. On Wall Street, news reports tell of young investment bankers popping amphetamines for work and pleasure. For a time, you could buy psychedelic mushrooms at a store 10 blocks from the White House. (You can still get them elsewhere in the nation's capital.) The men sleeping on the streets are on a cocktail of drugs we had scarcely heard of a decade ago: fentanyl, xylazine, nitazene. Elon Musk used drugs while campaigning for President Trump, as did Hunter Biden during his father's vice presidency. The data corroborate these impressions. In 2023, a record 62 million Americans smoked pot; 17 million now use it daily or near daily. One in 12 young adults used a hallucinogen; one in 18 misused prescription stimulants such as Adderall. Another 2

The Case for Prohibiting Vice Charles Fain Lehman Winter 2026 Once you notice the proliferation of vice, it is hard to stop seeing it. Sometimes the drive-through operator is stoned; other times, it's the barista. A young man you know spends all his money on sports-gambling apps and goes five figures into debt. On Wall Street, news reports tell of young investment bankers popping amphetamines for work and pleasure. For a time, you could buy psychedelic mushrooms at a store 10 blocks from the White House. (You can still get them elsewhere in the nation's capital.) The men sleeping on the street

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