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Tue 15 Mar, 2005 05:46 pm
Well, I've been reviewing some old laws, and it turns out Prohibition in America was only informaly renounced. It's still a law, just sort of dormant and unacknowledged.
Amazingly, and somewhat offensively, therefor all that is required to reinact the law is a petition with but five signatures.
So what do you say? Who's with me on this?
Just give your consent, and once I get the permission of four individuals, besides myself, I'll rush this to Bush... or a state senator or something...
Sounds fun. Unfortunately I'm not from the US, or you would have had my signature just for the hell of it.
But what about the beer?? The new Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant has 15 different beers on tap. And plenty more in the cooler......
That is just what is needed a little more government interference in our lives.
Re: Bring Back Prohibition
SCoates wrote:Well, I've been reviewing some old laws, and it turns out Prohibition in America was only informaly renounced. It's still a law, just sort of dormant and unacknowledged.
Amazingly, and somewhat offensively, therefor all that is required to reinact the law is a petition with but five signatures.
So what do you say? Who's with me on this?
Just give your consent, and once I get the permission of four individuals, besides myself, I'll rush this to Bush... or a state senator or something...
Are you sure? I thought it was a repealed amendment. Off to search.
I believe FreeDuck is correct. Prohibition amendment was repealed. It was a foolish law in the first place, created because of pressure from anti-immigrant, cultural conservative groups.
Such a thing could never happen again. Or could it???
If it happened once, I think it can happen again.
Unfortunatly..
So, I looked it up. Like D'art said, the 18th ammendment was repealed, but it was then left up to the states. So, theoretically, states can still have prohibition. But I guess once they figured out how much revenue there was to gain in the form of taxes, none of them chose to.
That's why they call them "amendments".
OK, if it will bring back the roaring 20's with it's speakeasys, flappers and gang wars.
Well, I believe there are still some "dry counties" out there. And states with some fairly arcane rules about buying the stuff. Makes life interesting when you're on the road...
Lubbock is a dry county. It IS interesting how they keep that law in place, yet serve alcohol......
So... do I have your signatures?
no, not me. sorry....l like my beer or my wine or my Tom Collins on a Saturday night .
Not me, either. I grew up during the era of Blue Laws (no businesses open on Sundays, if you can believe that). The fewer restrictions, the better....
I'll sign on...just as soon as I go get sh*tfaced drunk first. That way, nobody will recognize my signature.
> hic <
But if we prohibited alcohol again, then what's keeping us from becoming a stoner nation?
Shove it back to pre-WW1. You could still smoke grass, buy medical-grade cocaine and morphine over the counter - probably OK to import hashish, peyote buttons, mushrooms, absinthe, khat, yohimbe, and ephedrine in commercial quantities.
It would then be the 'United Wastes of America'. Dude.
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