Jesus Drank Grape Juice!

[kamiller42]

[quote name='Dismas' post='1351824' date='Aug 7 2007, 01:01 AM']Legal alcohol maybe. Once Prohibition was lifted, the taxes placed on alcohol were so high, that the moonshine industry was still running strong.[/quote]
The following paragraphs in the book cover what happened afterward. In general, demand for alcohol was down. Criminals will always find a way to beat the system. The rightness or wrongness of a law should never be rooted in that fact.

[Justin86]

[quote name='Socrates' post='1341850' date='Jul 27 2007, 12:26 PM'](If an ancient method of pasteurization existed as these people claim, we have absolutely no historical evidence of it whatever).[/quote]
Of [i]course[/i] there was an ancient method! It was the Pope and his minions that had all proof burned with all the documents proving faith alone and bible alone are historical!

[Dismas]

[quote name='kamiller42' post='1351962' date='Aug 7 2007, 11:12 AM']The following paragraphs in the book cover what happened afterward. In general, demand for alcohol was down. Criminals will always find a way to beat the system. The rightness or wrongness of a law should never be rooted in that fact.[/quote]

I mentioned nothing about rightness or wrongness, merely placed my doubt on the ability for a historian to figure out how much alcohol was actually consumed in America after the Prohibition. While it is quite easy to draw up statistics from legal purchases, the vast post-Prohibition black market on alcohol was not conducive to analysis decades after the fact.

Edited August 8, 2007 by Dismas

[kamiller42]

[quote name='Dismas' post='1352647' date='Aug 8 2007, 12:20 AM']While it is quite easy to draw up statistics from legal purchases, the vast post-Prohibition black market on alcohol was not conducive to analysis decades after the fact.[/quote]
You have a link to where I can read about this black market. From what I've read, much of what was black market went legal. Easier to run a business that way.

To those reading...

On another note, [url="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070814/ap_on_el_st_lo/prohibition_vote_3"]this article[/url] proves my point about priorities. What is the #1 argument against the ban? Money. Not any argument proving the wrongness of a ban. It make those for the ban that much more convincing.

[quote]"In Barrow, Alaska, when they legalized alcohol sales, problems went through the roof," Mosher said. "Then, when they banned it again, it improved."[/quote]
Got worse when legalized and then improved when banned? Impossible!