Yeah, I believe we tried that once before back in the early 1900's....hint, it doesn't work out very well or solve anything, basic law of supply and demand, if there is demand, someone WILL find a way to supply it.
I spent some time working in an Inuit village in northern Canada. Booze was banned. Even though a total outsider, I quickly found out exactly how the huge quantities of vodka(mostly) were being smuggled in, and who was doing the smuggling.
The county in KY in which I live was dry when we moved here six years ago. In fact, the county just north of us is the first “wet” county a traveler encounters if they are headed north from the Tennessee border.
So, right at the county line is a liquor store called the “fist stop”. And if you are coming from the wet county and driving into the dry county, the sign says “last stop”.
The guy that owns that place is one of the biggest opponents of my county going wet. go figure. :)
BTW, our county went “moist” a few years ago and last november the main town in the county went wet. heh.
Kentucky STILL does two of the stupidest things this country ever came up with: School bussing and prohibition. The head of the state police said that if the entire state went wet, meth use would go down by 25%.
Exactly. Those who don’t study history are doomed to repeat it.
Once again stupid doing stupid things. In this case I understand they believe they are doing the right thing but fail to understand the ingenuity of people to acquire whatever the product is if they want it bad enough. This will cause resentment as well and an unhappy people. Someone will simply use trucks to make “beer runs” farther away to get 100 or more cases at a time and sell them at a profit to pay for their time, effort, and vehicle wear and tear.
Prohibition doesn’t work with any product it has ever been tried on.