When was the prohibition?
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In the United States, Prohibition was accomplished by means of the Eighteenth Amendment to the national Constitution (ratified January 16, 1919) and the Volstead Act (passed October 28, 1919). Prohibition began on January 16, 1920, when the Eighteenth Amendment went into effect. Federal Prohibition agents (police) were given the task of enforcing the law.
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It is Nation wide .08, and that was figured by the amount of impairment of drunk drivers. The law also has the right to convict a detain for levels starting at .05 with the arresting officers discretion. Most States video tape all arrests anymore, and it's almost impossible to beat. One beer can get you arrested in America anymore.
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The Supreme Court would have performed the same duties as outlined in the constitution in the 1920's as it always had been performing.  Other than the fact that we had prohibition during the 1920's there is nothing in our history that would have changed their function.
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google it. search temperance movement which was largely organized by women and preceeded prohibition, and the women's suffrage movement which culminated in womens' right to vote.
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Al Swearengen\nExample; When the caracter of Hearst told him to accept his will and drink that he said NO
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May 10, 1954\n\nhttp://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9343590?tocId=9343590
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Yes, the government bans alcohol sales during the whole weekend of federal elections.   However, Federal Elections are only every 6 years.
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The 13th Amendment (banning slavery, 1865), the 14th Amendment (declaring, inter alia, those born here are citizens, 1868) and the 15th Amendment (banning discrimination on the basis of race, color or previous condition of servitude, 1870).
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All states with the exception of three or four were 21 by the spring of 1985. In 1986 those last four caved under pressure from President Regan when he threatened to withhold Federal Highway money from them and raised the drinking age to 21.  Not sure which they were but one was Ohio.  I'm sure because I was there and was legally allowed to buy alcohol on my 19th birthday in 1985
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First off, shoomph, it was legal until 1937 -- when the Federal Marijuana Tax Act was passed, and actually it was still legal then -- if you bought a tax stamp. However, the Feds worded the law so that in order to buy the tax stamp, you had to bring the pot -- pot that was illegal if you didn't have a stamp.  Therefore, no one would ever get a stamp since they would have to bring illegal pot, and no one would do that since they would be arrested, and therefore no one ever bought a stamp and pot was illegal.  That's one hell of a legislative Catch-22.\n\nSecond, Fisha, it wasn't alcoholics who turned prohibition.\n\nIt was a nation of drinkers -- many more drinkers than are pot smokers now, relatively speaking.  A nation of drinkers and a nation tired of the war on alcohol (sound familiar?)\n\nIt was really the Roosevelt administration who ended prohibition.  It was one of the very first things his administration did after coming into power, first legalizing beer and wine, and then legalizing liquor again with the passage of the 21st amendment in 1933, ending 13 years of very unsuccessful prohibition.\n\nIn perspective, consider there were tens of thousands of drinkers in a population of between 900,000 and 132,000,000 during prohibition's years 1920 to 1933.  Conservative estimates are that between thirty and forty percent of the US population drank, and it was in all likelihood far more.\n\nThere were approximately 1,500 alcohol agents (Treasury) -- very tired agents -- tired of trying to enforce the unpopular law, tired of battling all the criminals who flourished through illegal alcohol sales and distribution.\n\nThere was little opposition to the end of prohibition.  The nation was tired of prohibition, and all that it caused.\n\nHere's where the paths of alcohol and marijuana prohibition diverge.  \n\nIn patterns of use -- alcohol had been socially and traditionally acceptable and fairly widespread in use.  Marijuana has been around as long as booze, but wasn't as widely used in the US and so it never became part of the mainstream culture.  \n\nIn sheer numbers -- alcohol was and still is used by a larger group of the populace than marijuana ever was.\n\nHigh estimates (no pun intended) of marijuana use at the turn of this century still only amount to perhaps ten percent of the populace, nothing near the thirty to forty percent or more who drink.  Assuming a figure as high as up to 25 million people are sparking one up at least every now and again, that's still less than ten percent of the overall population (around 265 million in 1999).\n\nThe issue of marijuana decriminalization is far more problematic than the repeal of alcohol prohibition for many reasons.\n\nIt's difficult to sort these reasons which are entwined in many ways, so I'll just trot them out together.\n\nThere's marijuana's placement in a special drug category (unlike alcohol).\n\nThere's a deeply entrenched federal antidrug police force, the DEA, which in numbers and budget is far beyond the mere 1,500 strong Treasury department of the 1920's and 1930's.\n\nThe DEA, along with State, county and municipal police forces are deeply entrenched in a multibillion dollar "war on drugs." Not to forget, the US Coast Guard, The Army and other armed services play substantial, costly roles in the war on drugs.  \n\nNext time you see a helicopter fly over, especially in the summer and fall -- in the country -- odds are it's a National Guard chopper flying a surveillance mission looking for pot.  I've even had one overfly my tomato garden, then do a quick return and hover-over until they either got their pictures or were satisfied that my tomato plants were just that, and not a couple of dozen pot plants.  I'd estimate in fuel and maintenance time, that made my tomatoes worth at least a few hundred bucks.  \n\nThe propaganda and rhetoric of seventy years of marijuana prohibition has skewed p
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"Until 1937, consumption and sale of cannabis was legal in most American states. In some areas it could be openly purchased in bulk from grocers or in cigarette form at newsstands, though an increasing number of states had begun to outlaw it. In that year, federal law made possession or transfer of cannabis (without the purchase of a by-then-incriminating tax stamp) illegal throughout the United States. This was contrary to the advice of the American Medical Association at the time. Legal opinions of the time held that the federal government could not outlaw it entirely. The tax was $100 per pound of hemp, even for clothes or rope. The expense, extremely high for that time, was such that people stopped openly buying and making it.\n\nThe decision of the U.S. Congress was based in part on testimony derived from articles in the newspapers owned by William Randolph Hearst, who was heavily interested in DuPont Inc. Some analysts theorize DuPont wanted to boost declining post-war textile sales, and wished to eliminate hemp fiber as competition. Many argue that this seems unlikely given DuPont's lack of concern with the legal status of cotton, wool, and linen; although it should be noted that hemp's textile potential had not yet been largely exploited, while textile factories already had made large investments in equipment to handle cotton, wool, and linen. Others argue that Dupont wanted to eliminate cannabis because its high natural cellulose content made it a viable alternative to the company's developing innovation: modern plastic. Still, others could argue that hemp could never truly compete with the high strength and elasticity of synthetics, such as nylon. Furthermore, hemp would have been an easy target due to its intoxicating effect, while no rational justification could have been made for outlawing cotton, wool, or linen."  (Source: www.Marijuana.com)
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Decriminalized yes.  Legalized no.  I agree with most of your arguments and have three sons all over age of 21 who I have told a number of times that I would prefer that they smoke dope in place of drinking any day of the week.
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There was (and really still is not) a federal law regarding drinking ages. From the time prohibition ended the age was left up to the states, which mostly limited it to 21. In part because of the Vietnam War and the fact that many veterans came home unable to purchase alcohol, many states lowered their legal drinking ages to 18. In 1984, under pressure from MAAD and other such groups, Congress passed the National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984, which threatened to reduce highway spending by 10% if states did not increase the drinking age to 21.
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exist? The county has the right to allow or not allow alcohol to be sold. Some people prefer it that way. Prohibition was federal policy. It meant that alcohol was illegal, removal of the policy only states that it is not illegal, not that everybody has to sell it.
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What was done to enforce prohibition? What were some 'loop holes' or paradoxes of the 18th Amendment? What led up to the Prohibition Amendment and what resulted? What part did religion play in prohibition?\nTime-lines can be done to represent before, during, and after prohibition teaching historical importance.\nHalf can be 'for' prohibition and the other half 'against' prohibition, using knowledge to support their stance in the debate. This requires researching the pros/cons, and issues of prohibition.
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Section 1. -After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited. \n\nSection 2. The Congress and the several States shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. \n\nSection 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress.\n\n\n\nAmendment XVIII (the Eighteenth Amendment) of the United States Constitution, along with the Volstead Act (which defined "intoxicating liquors"), established Prohibition in the United States.\n\n\nHistory\nThe senate passed the amendment on December 18, 1917. The amendment was ratified on January 16, 1919, having been approved by 36 states. It went into effect one year later on January 16, 1920.\n\nWhen Congress submitted this amendment to the states for ratification, it was the first time that a proposed amendment had a provision that placed a deadline on ratification. The validity of the amendment was challenged on that basis in Dillon v. Gloss. The Supreme Court ruled on the case in 1921, upholding the constitutionality of such deadlines.\n\nThe amendment was subsequently repealed by the Twenty-First Amendment on December 5, 1933, making it the only provision in the Constitution to be explicitly modified.\n\nThe ramifications of the 18th Amendment, which will live on to be remembered as "Prohibition", have reached into today. The Amendment eternally changed the notion that localized crime could not evolve into a full-fledged mafia syndicate; while also removing the facade of a utopian society without alcohol (or any other drug, for that matter) in its veins, because it is just one of the many luxuries that make up the plasma in the American bloodstream. Prohibition changed the lives and roles of moonshiners and rum-runners, transforming them, along their product, into the lifeblood of American speakeasies and mob dons, forever revolutionizing the American dream and image.
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findout_22 - 1974? What kind of answer is that? \n\nI suspect it is sometime in the ealr 1900s...probably 1912.