AHC: Longer Prohibition

What would be a good POD for a TL where prohibition lasts into the 70's at least?

A Fascist US? Otherwise, no. Everyone had realized it was unsustainable. This isn't like the War on Drugs where one can try for it awhile because those drugs aren't as culturally important, prohibition was something we had NO hope of enforcing.
 
A Fascist US? Otherwise, no. Everyone had realized it was unsustainable. This isn't like the War on Drugs where one can try for it awhile because those drugs aren't as culturally important, prohibition was something we had NO hope of enforcing.
How about a more efficient FBI? Or something similar to that.
 
HM,

Could you have the Supreme Court strike down article 1 of the 21st amendment ?
On the theory that amendments could add and fill in grey areas, but not alter what was already in there.
In the words of one judge: "You voted for it, now live with it"


It would leave the 18th and the transportation clause of the 21st.
In all likelyhood that would allow areas with a clear consensus one way ot the other to do as they please. The problem would be areas with large, vocal minorities...
 
It could have been reformed into a system of control, with alcohol sold exclusively by State liquor stores, and provision made for totally dry counties. Another option would be coupon-based rationing, as was done in parts of Scandinavia IIRC.
 
It could have been reformed into a system of control, with alcohol sold exclusively by State liquor stores, and provision made for totally dry counties. Another option would be coupon-based rationing, as was done in parts of Scandinavia IIRC.

I was thinking along the same lines.

I think if you want it to succeed long-term in the US it needs to be introduced in surrounding countries too-and I think that's highly unlikely, if not completely ASB.

I think a widely reported tragic death where drink is seen as a contributary factor could help as well.
 
Is the Depression a factor at all? Seems to me, without it, some of the pressure to create jobs by restarting liquor production is off. So, too, more effective response to Mafia. Fire Hoover?
 
Prohibition (and in fact, any prohibition) is unsustainable because of all the bad it caused and because it simply did not work and in fact made things worse. Organized crime was taking over the cities, and people were still drinking, and what they were drinking was dangerous because there was no regulation of it since it had been banned. There were poisons in the bootleg booze, and hundreds upon hundreds died as a result. Meanwhile, the rich bought imported booze and kept massive stockpiles, which the working man was the one that got screwed over. It was just broken, and ignorant, and misguided. It failed, and it failed miserably.

And come the Depression, no one cares about the moral finger wagging that was Prohibition, and people figured it wasn't working, and the nation needed money, so repeal Prohibition and tax liquor.
 
Extending Prohibition to the 70s????

Hmm...The revenuers are gonna need much faster cars to catch Wendell Scott or Junior Johnson :)
 
Prohibition (and in fact, any prohibition) is unsustainable because of all the bad it caused and because it simply did not work and in fact made things worse. Organized crime was taking over the cities, and people were still drinking, and what they were drinking was dangerous because there was no regulation of it since it had been banned. There were poisons in the bootleg booze, and hundreds upon hundreds died as a result. Meanwhile, the rich bought imported booze and kept massive stockpiles, which the working man was the one that got screwed over. It was just broken, and ignorant, and misguided. It failed, and it failed miserably.
All of which, sadly, applies to the Drug War...:mad: which has gone on, what, four times longer?:eek::eek:
And come the Depression, no one cares about the moral finger wagging that was Prohibition, and people figured it wasn't working, and the nation needed money, so repeal Prohibition and tax liquor.
Good argument for doing the same now with marijuana...:rolleyes:
 
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