Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 16:49:41 -0500
To: Matthew Gaylor <freematt@coil.com>
From: Matthew Gaylor <freematt@coil.com>
Subject: Alcohol Prohibition -- 68th Anniversary of Repeal Today!
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Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2001 16:25:44 -0500
From: DRCNet <drcnet@drcnet.org> [Drug Reform Coordination Network]
Subject: Alcohol Prohibition -- 68th Anniversary of Repeal Today!



Dear DRCNet reader:

Octogenarians on the list, and maybe a few others, might
remember December 5, 1933, the day that federal Alcohol
Prohibition of alcohol in the United States was repealed
and alcohol policy returned to the purview of states,
counties and municipalities.  Prohibition ended a little
after 5:00pm EST, when Utah became the 36th state to ratify
the 21st Amendment to the Constitution.  Repeal of Alcohol
Prohibition heralded a dramatic drop in the homicide rate,
which was ultimately erased, unfortunately, by escalating
enforcement of drug prohibition.

The Associated Press web site has highlighted this 68th
anniversary of the re-legalization of alcohol with an audio
recording of a speech by a leading prohibitionist, the Rev.
Billy Sunday, condemning the ratification:

http://wire.ap.org/APpackages/history/history12/audio/1205billysunday.wav

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