prohibitionist|prohibitionists in English

noun

[pro·hi·bi·tion·ist || ‚prəʊɪ'bɪʃənɪst]

one who supports a legal ban on the sale of alcoholic drinks (USA)

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1. abolitionist (with prohibitionist leanings)

2. Colorado’s neo-prohibitionists and marijuana re-Criminalizers have come up with an invidious new two-pronged strategy with which to attack legal marijuana in Colorado

3. The prohibitionist discerned Americanism in prohibition, the equal suffragist in votes for women, the biologist in applied science, the physician in the extirpation of microbes, the philanthropist

4. While not as much work has been done on marijuana and Alzheimer’s, these initial studies suggest a similar pattern may be about to emerge regarding marijuana neo-prohibitionists’ and re-Criminalizers’ brain damage claims

5. Benchley, a mildmannered nonpartisan aide to a dozen Worcester mayors, and Jane Moran Benchley, known as Jennie to the family, a stern prohibitionist who nonetheless had a sharp sense of humor and could readily laugh at herself.

6. Whether legislation is abolitionist as in France, prohibitionist as in Sweden or even sometimes regulatory, if it fails to recognise a whole population this can only reinforce discrimination against forced immigrants and also prostitutes, irrespective of whether they are immigrants or not.

7. Ms Jekeler classed countries as follows: a few prohibitionist countries such as Ukraine, Albania and Romania; a number of regulationist countries, such as Germany, Austria, Netherlands, Switzerland, Greece. A third group tends more towards abolitionism (e.g. France, Portugal, Italy, Denmark, Belgium, Finland, Poland, the United Kingdom and Spain), but with strong regulationist leanings.