91 yrs ago today on December 5, 1933:
Constitutional Amendment Twenty-one : the “Repeal of Prohibition” was the 21st amendment to the US Constitution — ratified on December 5, 1933 — and in doing so it repealed a previous (Eighteenth Amendment implemented in 1919 — which had established a nationwide ban on the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol in America.) ….
Oh so wait, did that 18th Amendment NOT establish a ban on the CONSUMPTION of alcohol? For FOURTEEN YEARS (1919-1933) during that “dry” American period aka the “Prohibition” era?
… And if it DIDN’t why were bars and juke joints and speakeasies consistently raided and people arrested?
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