[VIDEO] Alcohol Prohibition Was a Dress Rehearsal for the War on Drugs
Posted: August 25, 2016 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, France, Mediasphere | Tags: Federal Bureau of Narcotics, Illegal drug trade, Liquor, Nick Gillespie, Prohibition, Reason (magazine), Reason.tv, Sinaloa Cartel, United States, United States Department of the Treasury, War on Drugs 1 Comment
“The war on alcohol and the war on drugs were symbiotic campaigns,” says Harvard historian Lisa McGirr, author of The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State. “Those two campaigns emerged together, [and] they had the same shared…logic. Many of the same individuals were involved in both campaigns.”
Did alcohol prohibition of the 1920s ever really come to an end, or did it just metastasize into something far more destructive and difficult to abolish—what we casually refer to as “the war on drugs?” McGirr argues that our national ban on booze routed around its own repeal via the 21st Amendment. Ultimately, Prohibition transformed into a worldwide campaign against the drug trade
The ties between drug and alcohol prohibition run deep. The Federal Bureau of Narcotics (FBN) was established in 1930, only three years prior to Prohibition’s repeal. The FBN employed many of the same officials as the Federal Bureau of Prohibition. And both shared institutional spaces as independent entities within the U.S. Treasury Department. “In some ways,” observes McGirr, “the war never ended.”
A Historical Perspective On Homicide
Posted: December 23, 2015 Filed under: Politics, Self Defense | Tags: Civil Rights, Death, Democratic Party, Drug war, FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Gun control, Gun rights, homicide, Law enforcement agency, Prohibition, Second Amednment, Uniform Crime Reports, Young Conservatives 2 CommentsJohn Hinderer reports: The Young Conservatives Instagramed this graphic a couple of days ago. I haven’t verified all the numbers, but I checked most of them against FBI data and they appear to be correct. The chart puts current hysteria over homicide and firearms into perspective. The left axis is homicides per 100,000 Americans…(read more)
Source: Power Line
California’s Neo-Prohibitionists: L.A. City Council to Vote on an Ordinance Banning Alcohol Advertising on City Property
Posted: January 20, 2015 Filed under: Food & Drink, Law & Justice, Mediasphere, U.S. News | Tags: ABC7, Advertising, Alcohol, California, LA City Council, Legal drinking age, Liquor, Los Angeles, media, news, Progressivism, Prohibition, Public Transportation, Robert Holguin, Twitter 1 CommentToday, @LACityCouncil will vote on an ordinance banning alcohol advertising on city property, including buses. #mapit pic.twitter.com/12KdThcvht
— Robert Holguin (@ABC7Robert) January 20, 2015