Currently reading Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition. The consequences of Prohibition are more or less common knowledge: enforcement was either difficult or impossible, and at any rate expensive; continued demand for alcohol gave rise to massive criminal syndicates; unregulated booze was a greater health hazard; and the flouting of the law bled into a general disrespect for all law. And so on and so on. In retrospect, the whole ordeal seemed predestined to fail. And we don't need a new history of the policy to tell us that.
On the 18th Amendment and the Volstead Act
On the 18th Amendment and the Volstead Act
On the 18th Amendment and the Volstead Act
Currently reading Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition. The consequences of Prohibition are more or less common knowledge: enforcement was either difficult or impossible, and at any rate expensive; continued demand for alcohol gave rise to massive criminal syndicates; unregulated booze was a greater health hazard; and the flouting of the law bled into a general disrespect for all law. And so on and so on. In retrospect, the whole ordeal seemed predestined to fail. And we don't need a new history of the policy to tell us that.