• cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        3 days ago

        Not sure how reliable it is, then. Or it could be that drinking culture bifurcated, where casual drinking stopped, and you either made it your life or did without, and a lot of the former category fucking died.

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          2 days ago

          Yeah, exactly. Tons of economics research shows how often people don’t step out of line, so lack of access has real effects. Prohibition locked out casual drinkers and people with no trustworthy connect to a bootlegger.