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The Woman Who Spearheaded Prohibition's Repeal

Pauline Sabin was a freedom-loving heroine.

Reason

Raise a Glass and Donate to Reason To Keep the Prohibitionists From Winning

Your tax-deductible support helps us make the case against today's overbearing nanny state.

Reason

Wildlife Agents Placed a Camera on His Property Without a Warrant, Then Raided His Home After He Removed It

How a Prohibition-era legal precedent allows warrantless surveillance on private property.

Reason

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Al Capone’s letters, pistol, to be auctioned next month

Handwritten letters by gangster Al Capone offer insight into life during Prohibition, an assassination attempt, the Chicago Outfit gang, Hindman Auctions said.

Chicago Sun-Times

Review: Prohibition Makes for Good TV but Bad Government Policy

Peaky Blinders reminds us that when the government bans or artificially limits a resource, control of that resource often gets decided through violence.

Reason

Editorial: Though well-intentioned, gun buyback programs miss the mark

During Prohibition, newsreels shown at movie theaters often included footage of police or federal authorities smashing bottles of wine, beer, and other booze confiscated from a bootlegger or illegally run speakeasy.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

In Central Oregon, a Prohibition lava cave tour — with cocktails

DESCHUTES NATIONAL FOREST, Calif. — We are in one of the darkest, quietest places on earth: an ancient subterranean cave in Central Oregon’s volcanic, sage-covered high desert. At this moment, 30 feet underground and about 3,000 feet deep, our naturalist guide has instructed us to turn off our headlamps and…

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What Old-Time Saloons Tell Us About the Pandemic's Damage

Killing barroom social networks kills innovation.

Reason

Welcome to the Nicotine Prohibition Era

Regulators have long targeted tobacco products, but there's new energy behind outright bans on vapes and cigarettes.

Reason

The Fuzzy Moral Line Between Drinkers and Bartenders

Were liquor suppliers across the world guilty of outrageous abuses that explain the prohibitionist response?

Reason

BBC Dragons Den: What is O'Donnell's Moonshine actually made from? Price and stockist details

Flavoured spirit business O'Donnell's Moonshine pitched on Dragons Den with their prohibition-style liquor

Wales Online

'Yellowstone' Saga Expands with '1932' Prequel on Paramount+

The hit series “Yellowstone” is becoming a mothership with yet another prequel. The Paramount+ streaming service said it has ordered the series “1932,” about the roots of the Dutton ranching family first introduced in the contemporary drama "Yellowstone.” The cast and release date for “1932” were not announced. The new…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Wall Street Crime And Punishment: Philip Musica, The Swindler Who Could Have Been President

Does crime pay? Wall Street Crime and Punishment is a weekly series by Benzinga's Phil Hall that chronicles the bankers, brokers and financial ne’er-do-wells whose ambition and greed takes them in the wrong direction.

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