Now, Prohibition was being implemented on a national scale, and being enshrined in the Constitution no less. What followed was a litany of unintended consequences. The Volstead Act ...

War on Drugs. As Marijuana Prohibition Winds Down, What Will Control Freaks Ban Next? It isn't enough to end just one restrictive law, we have to disempower the prohibitionists.

The end of prohibition is reported on the front page of William Randolph Hearst's New York Daily Mirror on Dec. 6, 1933. On this date 90 years ago, the 21st Amendment was ratified, ending 14 and a ...

The prohibition question became involved again in its continual melee by an unexpected turn of events. The Church Temperance Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church, an organization of many ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has hosted 4 events in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first program was a 2009 Speech. The year with the most events was ...

Little did they know, the bootlegger cases held flasks so those men could carry their own alcohol aboard trains and in public during Prohibition. 2. U. S. Official Bureau Of Prohibition Porcelain Sign ...

Last week Assistant-Attorney-General-in-charge-of-Prohibition Gustaf Aaron Youngquist made a radio-network speech and his Prohibition Bureau director, Amos Walter Wright Woodcock made a statement.

From its early 20th-century demonization to its 21st-century economic boom, cannabis's journey reflects society's evolving values and the complexities of legislative change.

The 18th Amendment, better known as Prohibition, was ratified on this day in history, Jan. 16, 1919. It became the law of the land one year later, leading to an array of social consequences.

Boardwalk Empire is a period drama set in the Prohibition era, which aired for five seasons on HBO from 2010 to 2014. The series, created by Terence Winter and produced by Martin Scorsese, follows ...