prohibition laws
Liquor outlawing statutes
Prohibition laws are government regulations that forbid the manufacture, sale, or consumption of certain substances—most often alcohol or drugs.
In American usage, Prohibition (capitalized) refers specifically to the period from 1920 to 1933 when the Eighteenth Amendment banned alcohol nationwide: Prohibition laws created a black market for bootleg liquor.
The term now applies broadly to any legal ban on controlled substances.
- alcohol banLegal restriction on liquor
- moonshineIllegally distilled spirits
- speakeasyIllicit liquor establishment
- blind pigUnlicensed drinking establishment
- raidSudden armed incursion
bootlegger · rum runner · bar · liquor license · teetotalism · dry county · temperance movement · drug scheduling · trade embargoes · bottle · whiskey · age restrictions · bathtub gin · Twenty-first Amendment · tariff regulations · export controls · distillery · saloon
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- Southern lawsJim Crow laws, segregation laws, slave codes, poll taxes, poll tax
prohibition lawslegalization
Making something lawful
licensing laws · decriminalization · permissions · cannabis legalization · alcohol licensing