Smashing the Liquor MachineMark Lawrence Schrad
Smashing the Liquor Machine
by Mark Lawrence Schrad · first published 2021
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…awareness of the real dangers (and lack of evidence for many folk remedies of alcohol like warming you up) had a big impact in convincing people and governments to get on the temperance bandwagon. [1] Smashing the Liquor Machine: A Global History of Prohibition - https://www.amazon.com/Smashing-Liquor-Machine-History-Prohi.... Especially Chapter 14.
on “The big alcohol study that didn't happen” ↗This argument was used against alcohol in the early 1900s, according to Smashing the Liquor Machine. According to them, US alcohol prohibition was lobbied for, in some part, by the left, because they saw it as exploitation. We saw how that turned out. The same thing happened in Russia, where the Bolsheviks…
on “Granting Pardon for the Offense of Simple Possession of Marijuana” ↗…to ban alcohol sales because they viewed the situation as greedy alcohol producers exploiting vulnerable alcoholics. It was part of the activism behind the prohibition movement in the US, according to Smashing the Liquor Machine, and it was the policy of the Bolsheviks early on to ban vodka for the same reasons. The narrative was a social justice one. Eventually they correctly realized that prohibition did more harm than good…
on “Marc Andreessen says he’s for new housing, but records tell a different story” ↗