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It's an old documentary for sure but the history lesson is still there.

It's a three-part series hour and a half or two hours depending which part being watched.
I'm through 1 & 2.

One of the very piquant details was how drunk as a nation we were such that women really drove the change. There were several "causes" wrapped up in a weird symbiosis, too. Sufferage, schooling and child labor, immigration, etc. It took many years and lots of pissed off people to get to the point of a constitutional amendment. False starts and more time passing and one eerie detail:
Groups forced into schools scary stories and propaganda about alcohol. Misleading and downright lies to very young children.

Those people grew up with this stuff swimming in their heads a couple decades before prohibition got legs.
It took that kind of long-range effort to reach the goal.

I instantly thought of our wonderful *** in Schools these days. Propaganda/indoctrination.
Prohibition brought so many unforeseen terrible consequences it was repealed. The only amendment ever repealed.
At least 20 years in the making partially through children in school.

btw
Streaming it free on  "hoopla" app. Just need a library card to access hoopla.

Vegas » 15 Oct 2025, 12:59 pm » wrote: ↑

15 Oct 2025, 12:59 pm

I love watching documentaries. I'll have to check this out. 

Alcohol is an interesting drug. America seems like it could live without harder drugs. But when it comes to the idea of removing alcohol, we go ape ****. I drink occasionally. It's enjoyable. However, I am unclear as to why alcohol is so much closer to our lives than the other drugs. It's just as dangerous as anything else.

Even the animal kingdom loves fermented stuff.

Coffee is a drug technically..  

Alcohol is far more dangerous  than Cannabis. I could smoke an ounce of a Sativa and drive.. with sufficient  caffeine supplements .  I am so grateful we finally have almost won Nancy Reagans war on Pot.. Had it not been a cock blocker to employment to use the substance I could have had more opportunities  and paid more tax revenue in my lifetime.. I hope we get it off Schedule with Heroine.

RFK reportedly said his heroine addiction improved his grades in college..