Talk:Repeal of Prohibition in the United States

message: Added a link to the US Congressional Resolution, September 17, 2008, which "celebrates 75 years of effective State-based alcohol regulation since the passage of the 21st Amendment". Interesting to read this replacing "alcohol" with "cannabis".
12.27.190.248 (talk) 17:57, 28 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  2008 Congressional Resolution 

message: WTH is this page a target for vandals? :/ pfctdayelise 14:31, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vandals 

message: This article discusses the repeal of national prohibition in the USA in 1933. The image included is of a consignment of liquor for Canberra in 1928. I will therefore delete it.
Agemegos 02:19, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Irrelevant image 

message: Hi Wham- When I created this page (Repeal of Prohibition) on 6-10-05, I used Repeal of Prohibition in the U.S. as the source. Therefore is not spam. Thanks. David Justin 18:18, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Source

message: Hi Wham- When I created this page (Repeal of Prohibition) on 6-10-05, I used Repeal of Prohibition in the U.S. as the source. Therefore is not spam. Thanks.David Justin 16:23, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Source information

message: Hi Wham- Please note that the material in bold is from “Prohibition of Alcohol in the U.S.“  The  Wikipedia entry is clearly sourced from that page and reporting it does not constitute spam. To the contrary, it is proper documentation. Thank you for recognizing this. David Justin 01:16, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Documentation information

message: Prohibition wasn't technically abolished per se. Persons under the age of 21 are still prohibited from purchasing or consuming alcohol. Now under 18 this falls under the category of merely being a minor, but persons between the ages of 18 and 21 are not minors. Perhaps something should be said in either this or the Prohibition in the United States article to reflect this. James Callahan 02:13, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, even if we accept that that still constitutes Prohibition, it wasn't until the 1980s that the legal age of consumption started going up from eighteen to 21, so Prohibition certainly was abolished in 1933; that some might argue it was reinstated in the 80s doesn't change that.  But even beyond that, the article makes clear that it's dealing with the repeal of federal Prohibition and the process by which drinking laws reverted to the states; while every state now has the same drinking age (I believe), that being 21, those are still fifty individual state laws rather than a single federal law.  Binabik80 03:02, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Caveat 

message: Please see a discussion here as to why this website does not meet WP:RS as an objective, third-party source or inclusion as an external link without a disclaimer that this .edu site is funded by the Distilled Spirits Council. Flowanda | Talk 05:50, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed potsdam.edu website link 

message: Are we sure that prohibition increased insanity, as is claimed in the beginning of this article? That seems like a rather far fetched and unsupported claim. As we know now, insanity is a mental/ neurological problem, not one brought on by drinking alcohol. Source or delete, please.   —Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.16.102.151 (talk) 07:49, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The article doesn't say that; it says that Mencken said it. --Orange Mike  |  Talk 18:56, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  Not ENTIRELY correct. Alcoholism CAN cause some psychiatric conditions, such as dementia and delirium tremens. That said, certain religious groups tended to blame alcohol and diet for all manner of psychiatric issues that have now been thoroughly disproved. 
Of interest is, even today, there are those who seek to reinstate prohibition and recycle the same disproved arguments.Wzrd1 (talk) 20:55, 7 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Increased Insanity? 

message: An anonymous user posted this text today directly to the entry. I reversed that edit but post the note here. Bmclaughlin9 (talk) 19:47, 18 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: This article fails to explain the coincidental relationship between the repeal of prohibition and the introduction of a personal income tax. This vastly expanded the tax base, as well as re-introducing whiskey and alcohol taxes. I understand these tax proposals to be critical for winning political passage of the repeal of prohibition.
The 16th Amendment (income tax) was ratified on February 3, 1913, 20 years earlier, and income taxes were imposed promptly upon its ratification. 
The importance of the revenues lost because of prohibition are already covered under "Impact of prohibition". Bmclaughlin9 (talk) 18:34, 20 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree, it's already covered under Impact, so it is redundant. If the poster wished to add to the "Impact of prohibition" section in an appropriate manner and provide citations, that would be more appropriate. For the main prohibition article, it may also be of interest to expand on the economic impact, especially during the Great Depression. Wzrd1 (talk) 20:58, 7 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Income tax