University:
York University
Course:
AP/SOSC 3118 | Drugs And Society
Academic year:

2024
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229

Pages:

2
Author:

Nick T.

Temperance Movement in America • Benjamin Rush wrote a pamphlet titled "An Inquiry into the Effects of Ardent Spirits on the Mind and Body" noticed a relationship between heavy drinking and jaundice, "madness", and epilepsy believed that hard liquor damaged drinkers' morasing referred to alcohol addiction as a disease the temperance movement initially promoted abstinence from distilled spirits only later promoted total abstinence become fashionable to "take the pledge" in the early 1800s Prohibition 13 States passed prohibition laws between 1651 and 1855 -by 1917, 104% of the american population lived in dry territory people drank illegally in speakeasies and other private clubs, and they drank legally from a Variety of the many parent medicines that were freely available • Federal prohibition the 18th amendment banned the sale of alcohol people still drank megally enforcement was challenging and expensive Outcomes of prohibition organized crime became more organized and profitable alcohol dependence and alcohol-related deatus declined 18th amendment was repealed by the 21st amendment in 1993 reasons for the repeal alcohol taxes had been a major Source of revenue Concerns that widespread disrespect for the prohibition law encouraged a generals sense of lawlessness • Outcomes of the repeal alcohol per capita sales and consumption increased alcohol consumption returned to pre-prohibition levels after world war 2 Going Back to Bill... Other Reasons to End Prohibition "If prohibition did reduce alconal-related problems, why was it repealed? in 1926, the Association Against Prohibition was founded by Ja a small group of America's wealthiest men... their primary concern seems to have been the income taxes they were paying historically, taxes on alcohol had been one of the primary Sources of revenue for the federal government.. a major hope of the repeal Supports was that income taxes could be reduced. Regulation and Taxation regulation after 1933 Some States remained dry after national prohibition most states allowed beer Sales mississippi was the last dry State *allowed alcohol purchase and consumption in 1966 In 1970s, 30 states lowered drinking age to 18 or 19 * it was raised again to 21 related traffic accidents. following concerns over young people dying in alcohol- • taxation - federal and State taxes and licensing fees amount to about hout the cost of an alcoholic beverage the congress initiated a significant tax increase in 1991, which resulted in fairly modest declines in purchases