It's Friday and today, in 1933, the 21st Amendment to the Constitution was passed and ratified, ending national Prohibition


Photo courtesy The Great Depression

Prohibition lasted from  1920 to 1933. During those 13 long dry years in American history, the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol for consumption were banned nationally. They were also the years, according to ushistory.com, that saw the birth of organized crime to exploit the illicit business opportunities that arose with these new circumstances.



Photo courtesy of websters-online-dictionary

This Prohibition poster lacks something in marketing savvy. No?


Oh, how this offends me!





Alcohol facts

* The alcohol contents of a regular beer, glass of dinner wine and shot of whiskey or other distilled spirit (80 proof) are all the same.
* The U.S. government reports that moderate consumption of alcohol (beer, wine or distilled spirits) improves health and increases longevity.
* Parents have great influence over the choices their children make about alcohol now and in the future.
* Drinking alcohol among preadolescents has been dropping in the U.S. over a period of years.
* Distilled spirits (whiskey, brandy, rum, tequila, gin, etc.) contain no carbohydrates, no fats of any kind, and no cholesterol.

Alcohol Problems and Solutions

I always drink too much
Annette Marie Hyder

Is it the Irish in me? Or the French?
I always get inebriated
with thoughts and ideas
intoxicated
with emotions

three sheets to the winds of imagination.
I always drink too much
with my eyes.