[WindMinstrel]

I correct posts on FR because it makes me feel smart. If I don't see enough factual errors, I just correct spelling and grammar :P

[AdA$tra]

It appears I may have been more right than wrong. The Boggs Act of 1951 and the Daniels Act of 1956 were where MJ use was criminalized. From '37-'51 you merely needed tax stamps to posess it.

[pepsionice]

The actual electoral part of this discussion...from the mid-1700s to the early 1900s...there was a fierce fight from women and New England conservitives (former Puritans) who felt alcoholism was becoming a natinal problem. In a sense, it was...on election day, free alcohol was standard for almost 90 percent of America. By the 1890s, women began to realize that their having the vote meant that they could kill of alcohol and make it illegal to drink it. So when Wilson came around and helped to give women the right to vote....it simply took 10 years for women to mount a national agenda and make alcohol a illegal drink. Nobody in 1918 would have dared think that such a thing could happen. Five years into this national amendment...the whole thing became a joke. You could buy alcohol anywhere...day or night....and the cops did not enforce the law. Congress began to realize the tax implications...that everyone was drinking it but no taxes were occurring. So it became a item for discussion. Revoke the amendment, and then tax alcohol. Precisely what occurred...was never really talked about. Most newspapers didn't talk about it after about four weeks. It was nothing worth national debate. Women simply gave up on the problem....until the 1980s...when MADD became a reality and states started to make their age limits rise. This act was more successful than anyone could have every gotten out of the amendment.

[pepsionice]

The actual electoral part of this discussion...from the mid-1700s to the early 1900s...there was a fierce fight from women and New England conservitives (former Puritans) who felt alcoholism was becoming a natinal problem. In a sense, it was...on election day, free alcohol was standard for almost 90 percent of America. By the 1890s, women began to realize that their having the vote meant that they could kill of alcohol and make it illegal to drink it. So when Wilson came around and helped to give women the right to vote....it simply took 10 years for women to mount a national agenda and make alcohol a illegal drink. Nobody in 1918 would have dared think that such a thing could happen. Five years into this national amendment...the whole thing became a joke. You could buy alcohol anywhere...day or night....and the cops did not enforce the law. Congress began to realize the tax implications...that everyone was drinking it but no taxes were occurring. So it became a item for discussion. Revoke the amendment, and then tax alcohol. Precisely what occurred...was never really talked about. Most newspapers didn't talk about it after about four weeks. It was nothing worth national debate. Women simply gave up on the problem....until the 1980s...when MADD became a reality and states started to make their age limits rise. This act was more successful than anyone could have every gotten out of the amendment.

[carenot]

I correct posts on FR because it makes me feel smart. If I don't see enough factual errors, I just correct spelling and grammar :P

Wow!

Y'all shore would have to work overtime ifn y'all follered me around!

[metesky]

Hoo due ya tink ya be?