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Re:Alcohol-Related Deaths Surge to Nearly 500 a Day, CDC Says by DinaCoder99 on Thursday February 29, 2024 @11:57PM (#39558663)
Prohibition cut alcoholism rates nearly in half in the states and also greatly reduced domestic violence rates, especially among poorer people. I'm not advocating for a return to this particular approach to societal management but the idea that it was some kind of obvious catastrophe is nothing short of ridiculous.
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Re:Alcohol-Related Deaths Surge to Nearly 500 a Day, CDC Says by rpmisms on Friday March 01, 2024 @12:01AM (#39558684)
It also literally created the mafia. Single-factor analysis is really not smart.
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Re:Alcohol-Related Deaths Surge to Nearly 500 a Day, CDC Says by DinaCoder99 on Friday March 01, 2024 @12:02AM (#39558690)
No, that's just not true. And besides, that seems like a small concern compared to the enormously destructive effects alcohol has far from any organized crime. A wildly entertaining effect to be sure, but not one that touches the lives of every day people like alcohol does.
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Re:Alcohol-Related Deaths Surge to Nearly 500 a Day, CDC Says by rpmisms on Friday March 01, 2024 @12:03AM (#39558698)
Here's an article about how it did:

https://www.history.com/topics/roaring-twenties/how-prohibit...

And another from the literal mafia museum:

https://prohibition.themobmuseum.org/the-history/the-rise-of...

Don't move the goalposts.

> the idea that it was some kind of obvious catastrophe is nothing short of ridiculous

It was literally an unmitigated catastrophe, which is why it was the only constitutional amendment to be overturned.

It also led to government agents spiking ethanol with methanol, leading to blindness. Pure evil.

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Re:Alcohol-Related Deaths Surge to Nearly 500 a Day, CDC Says by DinaCoder99 on Friday March 01, 2024 @02:38PM (#39565880)
I highly recommend talking to actual historians or if you insist on only consuming pop culture the Ken burns documentary
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Re:Alcohol-Related Deaths Surge to Nearly 500 a Day, CDC Says by rpmisms on Friday March 01, 2024 @02:46PM (#39565977)
I'm not going on an academic deep dive to prove that the mob in America was catapulted to power by prohibition. It's self-evident, and continues to be so as you go deeper.
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Re:Alcohol-Related Deaths Surge to Nearly 500 a Day, CDC Says by saaaaaam on Friday March 01, 2024 @04:03AM (#39560010)
This is simply untrue. The mafia started outside the US long before prohibition came along. It may have given the mafia an opportunity to accelerate and expand but it certainly did not “literally create” the mafia.
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