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To: NobleFree

I correctly addressed your post.
You threw out an idiotic revisionist history that insinuated prohibition caused people who drink to move to hard liquor.

No screwier bullsh!t has ever been posted on this forum regarding intoxicating substance use. Indeed, before the railroads made inroads to compete with wagon freight hauling hard liquor was far more common than beer or wine across most of the continent.

Are you literate to any degree at all? Have you never read books written in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries?

Make no mistake, the point I made might have been mocking your post, but that is not because I “didn’t understand” your post. It is because the very foundation of your post was a ridiculous falacy.


41 posted on 05/06/2017 2:18:03 PM PDT by MrEdd (MrEdd)
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To: MrEdd
an idiotic revisionist history that insinuated prohibition caused people who drink to move to hard liquor.

No screwier bullsh!t has ever been posted on this forum regarding intoxicating substance use.

"Before Prohibition, Americans spent roughly equal amounts on beer and spirits.[11] However, during Prohibition virtually all production, and therefore consumption, was of distilled spirits and fortified wines. Beer became relatively more expensive because of its bulk, and it might have disappeared altogether except for homemade beer and near beer, which could be converted into real beer.[12] Figure 2 shows that the underground economy swiftly moved from the production of beer to the production of the more potent form of alcohol, spirits.[13]" - https://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/pa157.pdf

43 posted on 05/06/2017 2:25:38 PM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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