putting restrictions in place for alcohol sales on holidays or regulating when and where people can drink. Original article source: New York weighs ending post-Prohibition law, potentially making ...

An image depicting teetotaler women protesting the consumption of alcohol actually has origins as a satirical publicity still ...

After a failed attempt at legalization earlier that decade, Virginia in 1968 finally legalized liquor-by-the-drink sales in ...

Once Prohibition took effect, many doctors championed alcohol as medicine ... The doctor himself always took a drink at the end of the day—"It braces me up," he explained—and often prescribed ...

During Prohibition, the U.S. government added toxins to industrial alcohol, knowing it could kill. The result? A chemical war that targeted the poor and reshaped public trust. Two young men share ...

The story doesn't have a happy ending, and in the 1970s ... That's what happened with Prohibition, and instead of making alcohol use go away, statistics — including those gathered from insurance ...

Nationwide prohibition against alcohol consumption was launched in 1919 in the U.S., but West Virginia enacted its ban much earlier. The results were deadly. In 1913, West Virginia passed the Yost Law ...

Within a few years, the federal government extended Prohibition on alcohol to all states. The following year, in 1919, the Volstead Act set out the details of what Prohibition meant and the ...