Prohibition has not ended...
I was reading BBC news on their site. I came up across some information that was very interesting. Prohibition on a national level ended in 1933. Some counties still experience Prohibition across the US, by having extremely strict laws in respect to sales of alcohol.Though, Minnesota, is entirely "not dry". There are still good reasons why alcohol should not be abused. There are horror stories of college students that binge drink, and die from alcohol poisoning. Though another good point in the article is that the sales of alcohol does help the economy, because of jobs, taxes, and so on.
This is the article.
From my comfortable, 21st Century perspective, prohibition was such a waste of time and resources. Thanks for sharing this article; I had no idea there were such tight alcohol restrictions still in the US. (Oddly, their map showed Minnesota as having no restrictions, but I think these "blue laws" are just that!)
ReplyDeleteAs pointed out, if a county or state don't allow alcohol to be purchased, people will just go to a neighboring county/state to get their buzz. Just wait til recreational use cannabis starts to become lawful; I guarantee we'll see the same pressure hit the areas that don't want to buy into that gold mine.
I have to agree with jud, WHEN, not if, the marijuana prohibition ends it will end the millions of dollars being spent yearly on combating marijuana, it will bring in millions of dollars in tax revenue, these 2 things seem to be like a good idea for the economy, not to mention that it is already legal in at least 13 states and in the books to become legal in about 13 more (those stats may not be exactly accurate but they are close i don't know what has changed recently)In those states the majority of laws are written county by county, and some counties in states where marijuana is legal it is still banned. The counties that banned it you know are feeling the pressure because they are seeing the massive amounts of revenue created in the counties that have legalized it. Everyone wants more money. I wonder if the sale of alcohol really helps the ecomonmy when you think about all of the dwi and alcohol related problems that the tax payers pay for in court costs, treatment costs and everything else you can think of. Having worked in a treatment center for over 5 years, very very very few people in there have health insurence and the state picks up the bill. You are lucky to be in minnesota if you have a alcohol and drug problem because the state will pick up the bills over and over again, im not sure if there is a limit to how many times the state will cover the costs of treatment but it is many more times than other states. (the reason so many people come to minnesota for treatment, they have used up all there chances in there state) So it would be intresting to see how much revenue and jobs match up with the neverending gift of treatment costs and establish which one out weighs the other.
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