He was also using coke according to the article. Prohibition didn’t stop him from using that, there’s no reason to believe it would have stopped him from drinking either.
Well im a bit suprised that smuggling increased it that much but numbers dont lie
some historians speculate that the total number could have continued to rise due to the increase in criminal activity associated with the illegal alcohol trade.
I quit drinking a good 10 years ago. Once you stop drinking and realise how weird alcohol culture is and how it’s somehow everywhere and everything is just better without… Fully agree.
Mainly responsibly. Once or twice a year, if even, I’ll go overboard, but otherwise it’s a one or two drink thing.
I couldn’t agree more. It’s a great social lubricant but I have no idea how you can be an adult that gets hammered drunk on the regular.
It’s by far the worst drug in the world and turns people into fucking morons. I’ve learned a healthy respect for it, and know how spectacularly wrong things can go when you overindulge and the flaming trail of wreckage the drug causes isn’t worth whatever fleeting moments of pleasure getting carried away causes. And I’ve internalized that hard.
heres a down vote me comment…ya know, id be ok if prohibition of alcohol came back
He was also using coke according to the article. Prohibition didn’t stop him from using that, there’s no reason to believe it would have stopped him from drinking either.
Last time it was tried the homicide rate went up by 13% …
Well im a bit suprised that smuggling increased it that much but numbers dont lie
Homicides were trending up leading into it, perhaps there were other factors involved as well.
I quit drinking a good 10 years ago. Once you stop drinking and realise how weird alcohol culture is and how it’s somehow everywhere and everything is just better without… Fully agree.
I still drink.
Mainly responsibly. Once or twice a year, if even, I’ll go overboard, but otherwise it’s a one or two drink thing.
I couldn’t agree more. It’s a great social lubricant but I have no idea how you can be an adult that gets hammered drunk on the regular.
It’s by far the worst drug in the world and turns people into fucking morons. I’ve learned a healthy respect for it, and know how spectacularly wrong things can go when you overindulge and the flaming trail of wreckage the drug causes isn’t worth whatever fleeting moments of pleasure getting carried away causes. And I’ve internalized that hard.
Im not gonna downvote you, but the cocaine use may have also been a factor here…
But then we would have to start bombing Venezuelas booze boats.