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prohibition Prohibitions are powerful, (theoretically) enforceable, and sanctionable social and/or legal restrictions on certain behaviours, events, or other activities—including, for example, sexual ‘deviations’, drug-taking or trafficking, and trade in endangered species. The term is often applied to the period (1919–33) during which alcohol production was outlawed in the United States. Sponsored by various religious and political
moral entrepreneurs and economic interest groups, and described at the time as a ‘noble experiment’, the social consequences of prohibition were highly damaging and the experiment ultimately proved to be insupportable. Prohibitions frequently produce innovative, illegal counter-responses, and in this case criminal entrepreneurs maintained the illegal supply of alcohol. High profits and competition led to violence. Otherwise non-criminal individuals were caught up in the criminalization of a previously normal social activity. The rapid expansion of
organized crime was also a legacy of the American experiment.
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`Prohibition worked'
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 8/18/1988; ; 700+ words
; ...look at what really happened during Prohibition. They found that, nationwide, there...nearly two-thirds. Some conclude that Prohibition, far from being the total disaster...night That Chicago's still there. - Prohibition-era verse You're a Chicagoan, you...
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PROHIBITION HAD ITS PLUSES, SCHOLARS SAY.(Main)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 11/22/1990; 700+ words
; ...years of this century, the result was Prohibition. Most people regard it as a flop...drinking became more widespread during the Prohibition era, historians now agree that the...ratified by the states by January 1919. Prohibition took effect a year later. The 18th...
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Prohibition politics
Newspaper article from: Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review; 7/25/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...standard, schoolbook history of alcohol prohibition in the United States goes like this...Worse, it also became clear that Prohibition fueled mobsters who grew rich supplying...booze. So, recognizing the futility of Prohibition, Americans repealed it in 1934. This...
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Introducing Prohibition Distillery: New York Spirits Company Captures the Spirit of the Roaring Twenties.
PR Newswire; 1/16/2009; 700+ words
; ...Today, on the same date that Prohibition began in 1920 under the 18th Amendment, a new spirits company opens its doors. Prohibition Distillery recalls this era of youthful...constraints and reveled in disobedience. Prohibition Distillery will be launching a portfolio...
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An economic analysis of alcohol prohibition
Magazine article from: Journal of Drug Issues; 7/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...consequences of prohibition. If this...to current prohibitions of abused...many other prohibitions. Further...demise of prohibition are reasonably...most other prohibitions, alcohol prohibition was repealed...
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The Economics of Prohibition. (book reviews)
Magazine article from: Mid-Atlantic Journal of Business; 3/1/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...alcohol have sought prohibition and at other times...the establishment of prohibitions. Again historical...indicates that even though prohibition has had limited success...potency from alcohol prohibition years--1921 to...and corruption from prohibitions during 1910-1919...
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Forbidden Fruit: When Prohibition Increases the Harm It Is Supposed to Reduce.
Magazine article from: Independent Review; 12/22/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...Ostensible motives for the prohibitions have included helping...would they impose such prohibitions? Let us examine the...benign. Such flat prohibition often leads to an...continuously until the prohibitions were repealed between...during the period of prohibition and continued to ...
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The economics of drug prohibition and drug legalization.
Magazine article from: Social Research; 9/22/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...Violation of these prohibitions is punishable by lengthy...to enforcing these prohibition regimes. The presumed...for analyzing drug prohibition is the observation...and demanded despite prohibition. This point might...abundant evidence from prohibitions of drugs, alcohol...
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The secret of worldwide drug prohibition: the varieties and uses of drug prohibition.
Magazine article from: Independent Review; 9/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...of countries in the world have drug prohibition? Is it 100 percent, 75 percent, 50...every country in the world has drug prohibition. Surprising as it seems, almost nobody...about the existence of worldwide drug prohibition. In the last decade of the twentieth...
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Constitutional blemishes: American alcohol prohibition and repeal as policy punctuation.(Report)
Magazine article from: Policy Studies Journal; 8/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...The American experience with alcohol prohibition in the early twentieth century has always...temperance wave that ultimately saw prohibition adopted in 10 countries, with others...historians developed to explain the advent of prohibition have a notorious inability to explain...
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Prohibition Ends
Book article from: American Decades
PROHIBITION ENDS First Night At 5:32 P.M. EST...1933, the "noble experiment" called Prohibition came to an end when the state of Utah...combat the anticipated celebrations, but Prohibition passed away more quietly than expected...
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Prohibition
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law
PROHIBITION The popular name for the period in U.S. history from 1920...alcoholic beverages, but the twenty-first amendment repealed this prohibition. The era of Prohibition was marked by large-scale smuggling and illegal sales of liquor...
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prohibition
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
prohibition legal prevention of the manufacture...liquor laws . The modern movement for prohibition had its main growth in the United States...soon repealed. A new wave of state prohibition legislation followed the creation...
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Prohibition Party
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law
PROHIBITION PARTY The Prohibition Party was established in 1869, ostensibly in response to a growing...liquor contributed to crime and immorality. In fact, although prohibition was always the top issue, the party's platform emerged as...
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Prohibition (Issue)
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History
PROHIBITION (ISSUE) During the colonial period in America alcohol...nationalism. This period saw the first experiments with statewide prohibition. Maine passed the first prohibition law in 1843. During the next few years Ohio, Illinois...
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