It is 100 years to the day since Prohibition came into effect. The 18th Amendment to the Constitution banned anyone in the US from selling, making, importing or even transporting alcohol.

Since alcohol withdrawal can be fatal ... % for women – and families had more disposable income: in the first year of prohibition, the sale of saris surged 1,715%. According to certain studies ...

While alcohol consumption remains a public health concern, a nationwide prohibition is unlikely to happen again. At 12:01 a.m., Jan. 17, 1920, America was cut off. Saloons closed their doors. Taps ...

Prohibition, under the 18th Amendment, prevented the legal manufacture, sale & distribution of alcoholic beverages in the US ...

It stayed that way for thirteen years ... see the end of Prohibition coming, he also sensed the opportunity that it would provide for people who were ready to sell alcohol legally.

Within a few years, the federal government extended Prohibition on alcohol to all states. The following year, in 1919, the Volstead Act set out the details of what Prohibition meant and the ...

In Gujarat, a state with strict prohibition laws, Ahmedabad police have reported a remarkable rate of liquor seizures, with ...

Alcohol, along with its attendant rituals ... Even in the nation's capital, the assistant attorney general in charge of Prohibition cases, 32-year old Mabel Walker Willebrandt, declares the ...