from: jon g.
subject: ProhibitionTomorrow is April 7th. This is the day in 1933 that beer was legalized after the 13 year prohibition. So, grab yourself a beer and raise your glass to FDR for allowing this glorious thing to happen.
“At 12:01 a.m. on April 7, 1933, sirens, fire alarms and train whistles shrieked. In Chicago, harried bartenders scrambled to serve crowds that stood 12 deep. At Pabst Brewing Co. in Milwaukee, thousands of onlookers cheered as company employees hoisted barrels and crates onto trucks. About 800 people stood in the rain outside the White House, watching as a man hopped out of his vehicle and unloaded two cases of beer. Secret Service agents accepted the goods, a gift for the chief executive from one of the nation’s brewers. “President Roosevelt,” read a sign on the side of the
truck, “the first real beer is yours.”" (LA Times)source: LA Times.
Yes, we’re far away from those days… or maybe. Time will tell. the only thing I understand is that since the Seventh of April is a time to celebrate, celebrate I shall. Bottoms up.
April 6th, 2009 at 9:46 pm
The prohibition of alcohol was stupid, but compared with the prohibition of cannabis, these laws were brilliant, effective, and totally worth having. Time to end 70+ years of the stupidest prohibition in existence, the dumb idiotic prohibition of the most useful plant and most harmless ‘drug’
April 6th, 2009 at 9:47 pm
if y’all don’t mind too much, i’m gonna hold off on my personal celebration until 4/20.
April 6th, 2009 at 10:38 pm
Move to California, get a medical card and head over to the store.
Soon full prescription strength will be available over the counter without a doctors recommendation. It’s just a matter of time, Cannabis is California’s 3′rd largest economy just behind milk and butter.
April 7th, 2009 at 5:03 am
Aside from the “I like to get high on (insert intoxicant name)” angle of the commentary, does anyone rail against the fact that a minority of right wing fanatics made enough noise to drown out the common man (steeped in apathy)to legislate and pass a bill that infringed on personal rights, destroyed industry, and incouraged crime? Sinclair Lewis said “When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross”. All extremists should be executed! :O WTF
April 7th, 2009 at 6:50 am
April 7 was the date that newly elected President Franklin D. Roosevelt, armed with 57 percent of the popular vote, tweaked the law to allow for the sale of beer, creating a sudsy slope that led to full-scale repeal of the 14-year-old law.
The originators of prohibition, the Women’s National Christian Temperance Union was founded in Cleveland in 1873 and the Ohio Anti-Saloon League was founded in Oberlin in 1893. The two groups formed the nucleus for the National Anti-Saloon League, founded in Washington, D.C., in 1895. The national group later moved to the Columbus suburb of Westerville.
Back in Westerville, change was slow to come. Dry until 2006, the town now has 10 liquor permits. As a town, Westerville always voted against Roosevelt, the man who let the beer flow. But it also collected federal money from 29 of his New Deal projects, Merriman notes.
“We voted against him, but we took his money,” he says.
I’m guessing there will be a lot of that going on in the year 2009 as well.
Merry End of Prohibition Day to all!
April 7th, 2009 at 12:49 pm
Obama, we need another New Deal…thinkin you should free the weed.
April 7th, 2009 at 1:38 pm
Legalize it….Don’t criminalize it. Jack Herer is my Buddha.
April 7th, 2009 at 1:39 pm
Oh ya…and I love BEER!
April 7th, 2009 at 7:03 pm
Wish Jack well, he has been in and out of the hospital due to a bad slip and fall.
April 7th, 2009 at 8:21 pm
…good points, ‘crank’…
…& yer <bsinclair lewis quote “When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross”. also applies well to the post regarding food safety legislation…
…i could only add that it will be standing tall on a parapet of hundred dollar bills…