This week marks the beginning of one of the great social experiments in our country’s great history — and in the opinion of some, one of its greatest disasters. On Jan. 16, 1919, the 36th state in the Union ratified the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and one year later, on Jan. 17, 1920, it went into effect.
This was the age of Prohibition, the banning the production and sale of all alcoholic beverages in the United States. The nation would remain legally dry until Dec. 5, 1933, with the ratification of the 21st Amendment, which repealed Prohibition. But how dry the nation became is a doubtful question.
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