dry laws
No booze allowed
Dry laws are regulations that prohibit or restrict the sale and consumption of alcohol.
The term comes from the metaphor of "dry" meaning without alcohol, as opposed to "wet" jurisdictions that permit it.
Dry laws reached their peak during Prohibition in the United States (1920–1933), but many localities maintain them today: Several counties in the South still have dry laws on the books.
- 18th AmendmentConstitutional liquor ban
- bootleggingIllegal alcohol production/sale
- bootleg whiskeyIllegally produced hard alcohol
- local optionCommunity self-determination on issues
- prohibitionAuthoritative legal ban
speakeasy · blind pig · noble experiment · temperance · moonshine · alcohol ban · bathtub gin · teetotalism · moral reform · demon rum · liquor license · rum-running · community standards · religious influence · social stigma · Capone · liquor raids · alcohol-free zones
- ProhibitionProhibition, speakeasies, bootlegger, bootleggers, speakeasy
- drink historybootleggers, moonshine, speakeasies, temperance movement, 18th Amendment
- Temperancetemperance movement, teetotalism, prohibition movement, alcohol abstinence, WCTU
dry lawsliquor licensing
Authorization to sell spirits
repeal · wet counties · licensed premises · legal drinking · Twenty-first Amendment