2025-12-05

Repeal of the 18th Amendment in 1933

old whiskey    
I stoppped drinking some 30 years back. It was a decision to cease and desist with all recreational drugs and this included tobacco, cigarettes and cigars, marijuana, pharmaceuticals, and of course alcohol. The consequences of this were not NEARLY as severe as I thought they would be.

I pretty much went cold turkey and never had the desire to resume any of it from that time forward. I have always been surprised to hear others speak of their difficulties putting these things down.

The United States went through a period called "prohibition" where the consuming of non medicinal alcohol was forbidden.

As always the crooks had all the liquor they could imbibe and the stupid government was unable to curtail anything toward that end effectively.

The 21st Amendment was ratified on December 5, 1933. This repealed 18th Amendment and ended nationwide Prohibition of alcohol and the governmental incompetence associated with it. This amendment was ratified by state conventions, not state legislatures, and the final state to ratify it was Utah. President Franklin D Roosevelt was the Chief Executive so he proclaimed the 18th Amendment repealed on the day of ratification.

Prohibition appears to have done nothing except cause problems and further promote backward thinking among the voters.