I’ll do it kid
everybody choice today alcohol is so
ubiquitous in the West that it’s kind of
mind-blowing to think that there was a
time and you could be arrested just for
buying a six-pack welcome to
watchmojo.com it we’re counting down the
five most fascinating facts about the
USA’s prohibition of alcohol during the
1920s and 30s as you know in less than
two hours liquor will be declared
illegal by decree of the distinguished
gentlemen of our nation’s Congress true
those beautiful ignorant bastards number
five
drinking wasn’t actually illegal the
Brewers and distillers were suffering
county-by-county state-by-state they
were being forced to close down the 18th
amendment also known as the Volstead Act
went into effect in January 1920 and
made the manufacture sale and
distribution of liquor illegal so if
like some wealthy individuals of the day
you bought out the stock of an entire
liquor store before the law went into
effect you could still enjoy it in the
privacy of your own home what’s that
lemonade in your hand I’m just proposing
we call a spade a spade it was also
possible to receive a doctor’s
prescription by medical whiskey from a
pharmacy so-called blind pigs got around
the sales restriction by instead
charging people to see some interesting
animal like a Blind Pig and gave patrons
a free drink with admission that loopy
banco number for prohibition made
cocktails popular what about like some
pineapple juice with a little bit of rum
on the side of course like it’s not
cocktail guy since the manufacturer of
alcohol was done on the black market
much of the liquor being supplied to
illegal saloons was filled with poisons
like wood alcohol iodine and sulfuric
acid but more on that later
excuse me so since the stuff tasted
awful and there wasn’t a wide variety of
it bartenders would mix in things like
fruit juices sugar and grenadine to mask
the taste of death historical data on
these details seems spotty but it does
stand to reason also sweet drinks are
easier to down quickly which is
important when the joint could be rated
at any moment this is a fact the 20,000
quarts of whiskeys now being destroyed
under court order go to it boy
number three propaganda played a huge
role but at high school age even though
your mind seems mature your body isn’t
an alcohol is a vial of narcotic in
order to get the law passed groups like
the Christian women’s temperance League
and the anti-saloon League launched
massive anti-alcohol campaigns to sway
popular opinion over the course of eight
years liquor thy names delirium drinking
was portrayed as the cause of just about
every societal ill it was said to
bankrupt and destroy families while
making evil brewery tycoons and saloon
owners filthy rich the DRI campaigners
as they were called also wanted to paint
booze as massively expensive to
taxpayers
I say alcohol let’s go ironically though
it was actually the millions lost to tax
revenue and the hundreds of millions it
cost to enforce the law that led to its
repeal in 1933 and so that’s why
alcohols Bay has that marijuana made it
back up here yet number two the KKK
supported prohibition and vice versa
from all those smart ass folks say we
come descended from monkey
that’s not my coach in Hampi the Ku Klux
Klan are white supremacist group first
founded in the mid 19th century before
prohibition there were small fringe
organizations scattered throughout the
south but their ardent sometimes even
violent supported prohibition made them
hugely popular with the general booze
hate in public by 1925 their membership
numbers had ballooned from a few
thousand to between three and six
million members from all over the
country they burned down saloons
raided road houses for stashes of hooch
and were even deputized by federal
officials to do so
luckily they fell from popularity that
same decade and now have fewer than
10,000 members we got us here brother
Mexicans number one Uncle Sam’s tainted
hooch killed thousands partner I don’t
know if that’s the safest thing I were
saying or you’re some kind of damn
genius hmm now not to make light of a
tragedy like this but Uncle Sam’s
tainted which would be an awesome name
for a punk band just sayin manufacturer
of alcohol for industrial purposes was
still permitted during Prohibition but
the government tried to make it
completely undrinkable by forcing
manufacturers to add chemicals to it
some of these chemicals were harmless
but others were toxic and this builds a
breed y’all way across it when you shake
it so I say you can tell it’s good
alcohol it’s estimated that a tenth of
all the industrial alcohol produced in
this period wound up being drunk anyhow
causing paralysis blindness and even
death the most common estimate is that
about 10,000 people died from this
tainted hooch but some authors put that
number at as high as 12,000 in 1927
alone professor professor
so what do you think so can’t even like
process this should we give prohibition
another try
or maybe prohibit fewer intoxicants wait
what you can’t seriously wanna ban
alcohol it tastes great makes women
appear more attractive and makes a
person virtually invulnerable to
criticism for more sugary sweet top tens
and may cause blindness top fives be
sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com
you got it joven so what nothing
everybody choice today alcohol is so
ubiquitous in the West that it’s kind of
mind-blowing to think that there was a
time and you could be arrested just for
buying a six-pack welcome to
watchmojo.com it we’re counting down the
five most fascinating facts about the
USA’s prohibition of alcohol during the
1920s and 30s as you know in less than
two hours liquor will be declared
illegal by decree of the distinguished
gentlemen of our nation’s Congress true
those beautiful ignorant bastards number
five
drinking wasn’t actually illegal the
Brewers and distillers were suffering
county-by-county state-by-state they
were being forced to close down the 18th
amendment also known as the Volstead Act
went into effect in January 1920 and
made the manufacture sale and
distribution of liquor illegal so if
like some wealthy individuals of the day
you bought out the stock of an entire
liquor store before the law went into
effect you could still enjoy it in the
privacy of your own home what’s that
lemonade in your hand I’m just proposing
we call a spade a spade it was also
possible to receive a doctor’s
prescription by medical whiskey from a
pharmacy so-called blind pigs got around
the sales restriction by instead
charging people to see some interesting
animal like a Blind Pig and gave patrons
a free drink with admission that loopy
banco number for prohibition made
cocktails popular what about like some
pineapple juice with a little bit of rum
on the side of course like it’s not
cocktail guy since the manufacturer of
alcohol was done on the black market
much of the liquor being supplied to
illegal saloons was filled with poisons
like wood alcohol iodine and sulfuric
acid but more on that later
excuse me so since the stuff tasted
awful and there wasn’t a wide variety of
it bartenders would mix in things like
fruit juices sugar and grenadine to mask
the taste of death historical data on
these details seems spotty but it does
stand to reason also sweet drinks are
easier to down quickly which is
important when the joint could be rated
at any moment this is a fact the 20,000
quarts of whiskeys now being destroyed
under court order go to it boy
number three propaganda played a huge
role but at high school age even though
your mind seems mature your body isn’t
an alcohol is a vial of narcotic in
order to get the law passed groups like
the Christian women’s temperance League
and the anti-saloon League launched
massive anti-alcohol campaigns to sway
popular opinion over the course of eight
years liquor thy names delirium drinking
was portrayed as the cause of just about
every societal ill it was said to
bankrupt and destroy families while
making evil brewery tycoons and saloon
owners filthy rich the DRI campaigners
as they were called also wanted to paint
booze as massively expensive to
taxpayers
I say alcohol let’s go ironically though
it was actually the millions lost to tax
revenue and the hundreds of millions it
cost to enforce the law that led to its
repeal in 1933 and so that’s why
alcohols Bay has that marijuana made it
back up here yet number two the KKK
supported prohibition and vice versa
from all those smart ass folks say we
come descended from monkey
that’s not my coach in Hampi the Ku Klux
Klan are white supremacist group first
founded in the mid 19th century before
prohibition there were small fringe
organizations scattered throughout the
south but their ardent sometimes even
violent supported prohibition made them
hugely popular with the general booze
hate in public by 1925 their membership
numbers had ballooned from a few
thousand to between three and six
million members from all over the
country they burned down saloons
raided road houses for stashes of hooch
and were even deputized by federal
officials to do so
luckily they fell from popularity that
same decade and now have fewer than
10,000 members we got us here brother
Mexicans number one Uncle Sam’s tainted
hooch killed thousands partner I don’t
know if that’s the safest thing I were
saying or you’re some kind of damn
genius hmm now not to make light of a
tragedy like this but Uncle Sam’s
tainted which would be an awesome name
for a punk band just sayin manufacturer
of alcohol for industrial purposes was
still permitted during Prohibition but
the government tried to make it
completely undrinkable by forcing
manufacturers to add chemicals to it
some of these chemicals were harmless
but others were toxic and this builds a
breed y’all way across it when you shake
it so I say you can tell it’s good
alcohol it’s estimated that a tenth of
all the industrial alcohol produced in
this period wound up being drunk anyhow
causing paralysis blindness and even
death the most common estimate is that
about 10,000 people died from this
tainted hooch but some authors put that
number at as high as 12,000 in 1927
alone professor professor
so what do you think so can’t even like
process this should we give prohibition
another try
or maybe prohibit fewer intoxicants wait
what you can’t seriously wanna ban
alcohol it tastes great makes women
appear more attractive and makes a
person virtually invulnerable to
criticism for more sugary sweet top tens
and may cause blindness top fives be
sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com
you got it joven so what nothing
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