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100 years ago today
6 years ago
The USA was on the eve of prohibition. Massive drunken parties were held across the country, some of them funeral ceremonies for booze under various names.
It was repealed several years later, having spawned many evils that persist to this day. The largest one was large scale smuggling of booze and illicit manufacture of same forced crime to get organized into multistate and international crime rings. The profits were enormous, different gangs had violent wars over 'turf', and the federal government created national police forces with sweeping powers to enforce the laws. Sound familiar?
Unfortunately we are still trying to regulate human behavior via the lawbook and jails with the modern war on some drugs.
It was repealed several years later, having spawned many evils that persist to this day. The largest one was large scale smuggling of booze and illicit manufacture of same forced crime to get organized into multistate and international crime rings. The profits were enormous, different gangs had violent wars over 'turf', and the federal government created national police forces with sweeping powers to enforce the laws. Sound familiar?
Unfortunately we are still trying to regulate human behavior via the lawbook and jails with the modern war on some drugs.
By no means a legal authority but U imagine Marshall would be agast at what his rullings on the Commerce Clause has been allowed to spawn in the modern era.