[pepsionice]

There is a lot of history here. If you went back to 1888...the vast majority of men in America were consuming a fair amount of booze on a daily basis. Wives were buying the medicinal bottles loaded with alcohol and narcotics. We were a vast society consumed with ease of purchase and acceptance by society.

So this clean-up period in the 1900’s did some good. It made everyone stand back and reflect on what we were doing. But I’d admit that any county that remains dry today....is losing millions on tax revenue to surrounding counties that accept liquor sales. I grew up in a dry county, which still remains dry today. They’ve lost at least $50 million over the past thirty years since I left the county as a kid....which went to their neighbors instead.

[Vince Ferrer]

My own opinion on alcohol in the past is that it was probably a good thing, as alcohol kills bacteria in water. Drinking beer and wine was probably better than drinking water. Prohibition comes at a time when sanitation was improving and water became safer to drink, and alcoholism became an avoidable problem rather than a necessary evil.