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Early Prohibition and The Rise of Weird Liquor Laws (1838)
IT’s January 27th. This day in 1838, some 80 years before national prohibition, the country’s first liquor restriction was passed.
Jody, NIki, and Kellie discuss how the temperance movement gained momentum alongside other moral crusades in the mid-19th century, and how we are still living with a weird patchwork of alcohol laws around the country.
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