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The History of Alcohol
Prohibition, specifically prohibition in the us. People have been trying to ban or limit the use of alcohol for about as long as we've been making it. Starting around this time, starting in the late 17 hundreds, morality around alcohol began to change. The gin craze in parts of england, which is like a thing that happened, took place between 17 hundred and 17 50. This may have had something to do with it, but many accounts are super exaggerated and probably just an example of moral panic.