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Prohibition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Prohibition of alcohol , often referred to simply as prohibition , refers to a sumptuary law which prohibits alcohol. Typically, the manufacture, transportation, import, export, and sale of alcohol...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition
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In 1920, the national policy of Prohibition began. ... It sought, by law, to make the whole Nation into enforced teetotalers and to put an end to all evils associated with drinking. ... Their texts teemed with both facts and misinformation such as "Alcohol sometimes causes the coats of the blood vessels to grow thin.
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www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/LIBRARY/studies/nc/nc2a.ht...
www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/LIBRARY/studies/nc/nc2a.htm
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It is commonly alleged that alcohol prohibition during the 1920s greatly reduced alcohol consumption and also reduced the crime related to alcohol. ... As long as the prohibition legislation was enforced, could be enforced, as long as the bootlegging element had not been organized, and not get the stuff,
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www.druglibrary.org/prohibitionresults.htm
www.druglibrary.org/prohibitionresults.htm
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Cato Institute paper reviewing alcohol prohibition that touches on the comparison with modern drug prohibition. ... National prohibition of alcohol (1920-33)--the "noble experiment"--was undertaken to reduce crime and corruption, solve social problems, reduce the tax burden created by prisons and poorhouses,
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www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-157.html
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The anti-alcohol Ku Klux Klan (KKK) was a major supporter of prohibition and actively enforced it by breaking up speakeasies, intercepting bootlegged alcohol, and even tarring and feathering people who sold alcohol. ... One of the major supporters of National Prohibition of alcohol in the U.S. (1920-1933) was the anti...
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www2.potsdam.edu/hansondj/Controversies/1107362364.html
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Throughout the second half of the century, various anti-alcohol measures were enforced in states all over the Union. ... Employers were concerned, as they always had been, about the effects of alcohol on the efficiency of their workforce. These factors, combined with a temporary Wartime Prohibition Act, introduced in World War...
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www.ephidrina.org/alcohol/prohibition.html
www.ephidrina.org/alcohol/prohibition.html
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Most Americans agreed that alcohol suppression was worse than alcohol consumption. ... Today is the 75th anniversary of that blessed day in 1933 when Utah became the 36th and deciding state to ratify the 21st amendment, thereby repealing the 18th amendment. This ended the nation's disastrous experiment with alcohol prohibition.
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online.wsj.com/article/SB122843683581681375.html
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National Alcohol Prohibition, 1920-1933 ... Nineteenth-century prohibitionists believed that only when sufficient numbers of their party members held office would prohibition be practical, because only then would it be fully enforced.
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www.cedro-uva.org/lib/levine.alcohol.html
www.cedro-uva.org/lib/levine.alcohol.html
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