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Why the U.S. banned alcohol, then (partly) changed its mind (E63)

The Adam Ragusea Podcast

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The Story of Prohibition

The United States has the 38th highest alcohol sales by leader per capita, according to the World Health Organization. Latvia is number one with 13 liters of pure ethanol per capita every year in Latvia. In the US, we drink about 10 liters a year,. especially for a country that literally banned all alcohol just barely a century ago. What happened? What came over us? What made us snap out of it?

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