An enthusiast on the Pulp Hero discussion board provides some authentic flavor of the Prohibition Era: An official Medicinal Liquor prescription form.
It’s funny to think that alcohol was once treated like medical marijuana.
An enthusiast on the Pulp Hero discussion board provides some authentic flavor of the Prohibition Era: An official Medicinal Liquor prescription form.
It’s funny to think that alcohol was once treated like medical marijuana.
Mar 15 2007
In an essay called Foundations of the Kling School, I write, Economics should be subsumed under the general study of human behavior, not the other way around. ...The conceptual differences between leaving a tip and paying income taxes are not as large as they might first appear. If tipping were under the aegis of com...
Mar 14 2007
I'm not sure if Tyler Cowen's advice to libertarians is the worst any serious thinker has ever given us. But it's up there. I'd like to give my dear friend and benefactor a charitable reading, but I just can't. Stripped of its rhetorical grace, Tyler's essay basically makes two big points: 1. We're really rich, so...
Mar 13 2007
An enthusiast on the Pulp Hero discussion board provides some authentic flavor of the Prohibition Era: An official Medicinal Liquor prescription form. It's funny to think that alcohol was once treated like medical marijuana.
READER COMMENTS
Kevin Nowell
Mar 14 2007 at 1:00am
I wonder if, during the Prohibition, Tyler Cowen would have said Libertarians should just accept that Prohibition is here to stay and learn to accept package deals when they are package deals.
George
Mar 14 2007 at 3:11pm
Prohibition was much looser than current marijuana restrictions: you could brew your own beer and wine legally (though I don’t think you could sell it). Even when it comes to distilled spirits, prohibition was looser on a practical level: growing your own marijuana requires a large dedicated space for months of time, while I imagine bathtub gin required just a bathtub and a day or so.
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Mar 14 2007 at 9:38pm
First off, it wasn’t legal to make one’s own liqor. On hte subject of practicality, how practical was it? It was a complete failure in almost, if not all respects.
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