Look, I’ve just finished a bottle of wine, so I’m no teatotler. But what data does exist shows the immediate post-21st Amendment years as lower than pre-18th years. Prohibition was an overall failure, and I celebrate Repeal Day. but it did actually reduce the national average of alcohol consumption for a time.
Not sure how reliable it is, then. Or it could be that drinking culture bifurcated, where casual drinking stopped, and you either made it your life or did without, and a lot of the former category fucking died.
Yeah, exactly. Tons of economics research shows how often people don’t step out of line, so lack of access has real effects. Prohibition locked out casual drinkers and people with no trustworthy connect to a bootlegger.
Ha jokes on you, my great great grandfather ran a mule train up from Mexico loaded with liquor. Traded it for hard ciders and shine from the other Celtic families in the area, kept a mule worth himself though.
One set of my great grandparents met as a “musician for a speakeasy” (given some stories there’s no way it was just that) and a dancer for one.
Which makes it extra hilarious how much their daughter (one of my grandmas) really really obsessed over having the appearance of being high society. Definitely an over-correction. Ended up marrying into money, but was never high society.
…Except for 1920 to 1933…
Alcohol consumption went up for many people. Way up.
For some. Which is not enough to raise averages.
Look, I’ve just finished a bottle of wine, so I’m no teatotler. But what data does exist shows the immediate post-21st Amendment years as lower than pre-18th years. Prohibition was an overall failure, and I celebrate Repeal Day. but it did actually reduce the national average of alcohol consumption for a time.
https://theconversation.com/how-prohibition-changed-the-way-americans-drink-100-years-ago-129854
Does that track reported consumption or alcohol related ailments?
Just consumption
Not sure how reliable it is, then. Or it could be that drinking culture bifurcated, where casual drinking stopped, and you either made it your life or did without, and a lot of the former category fucking died.
Yeah, exactly. Tons of economics research shows how often people don’t step out of line, so lack of access has real effects. Prohibition locked out casual drinkers and people with no trustworthy connect to a bootlegger.
Ha jokes on you, my great great grandfather ran a mule train up from Mexico loaded with liquor. Traded it for hard ciders and shine from the other Celtic families in the area, kept a mule worth himself though.
One set of my great grandparents met as a “musician for a speakeasy” (given some stories there’s no way it was just that) and a dancer for one.
Which makes it extra hilarious how much their daughter (one of my grandmas) really really obsessed over having the appearance of being high society. Definitely an over-correction. Ended up marrying into money, but was never high society.
Right, and your folks smoked less weed too.
There was no prohibition in my country. I assume here they drank less from 1933 to 1945, but maybe the damn Nazis got drank a lot. Who knows?