![]() Today it is a byword for futile attempts to legislate morality and remake human nature. A predictable failure-the insult to individual rights, the impossibility of enforcement, the spawning of organized crime-it came to an end in 1933. When the 18th Amendment went into effect in 1920, it was a radical social experiment challenging a custom as old as civilization. Prohibition now is different from Prohibition then. ![]() "You may now kiss the groom," perhaps, or a version of the comment he once made about smoking pot: "I inhaled-that was the point." ( Click here to follow Jacob Weisberg) I hope Barack Obama will come up with some comparably witty remarks as he presides over the dismantling of our contemporary forms of prohibition-laws that prevent gay marriage, restrict cannabis as a Schedule I controlled substance, and ban travel to Cuba. Roosevelt said upon signing a bill that made 3.2 percent lager legal, ahead of the full repeal of Prohibition. "I think this would be a good time for a beer," Franklin D. ![]()
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