100 years since the 19th amendment

[oggbashan]

100 years since the 18th amendment

Raise a glass today to celebrate 100 years since the start of the 'noble experiment' of prohibition.

https://www.history.com/topics/united-states-constitution/18th-and-21st-amendments

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volstead_Act

 

[domroger]

Contender for the dumbest law ever .

 

[phrodeau]

Last year I celebrated the 100th anniversary of mass-marketed root beer. Without the trend toward prohibition, that might not have happened.

 

[YDB95]

My all time favourite Onion article is the one with the brewery owner in 1933 as he prepares to "re-open" his brewery after prohibition is repealed..."Wow, everything's so clean and in such great working order, it's almost like we never stopped!"