On Dec. 5, 1848, in an address to Congress, President James K. Polk sparked the Gold Rush of ’49 by confirming that gold had ...

America’s experiments with prohibition have proven to be catastrophic failures that make a mockery of the law, skew police priorities and enrich the black market. On this day, 104 years ago, the ...

A handful of companies, including Brown-Forman, received medicinal licenses to legally sell existing spirits during Prohibition. The repeal of Prohibition in 1933 did not immediately solve the ...

On this day in 1933, Prohibition ended in the U.S. The 21st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified on Dec. 5.

The 18th Amendment was the amendment frequently referred to as the “Prohibition Amendment.” It was ratified by the states on Jan. 16, 1919. The 21st Amendment, ratified in early 1933, repealed the ...

In the professional paper "Temperance and Prohibition in America: A Historical Overview," Paul Aaron and David Musto ...

Take a deep breath. Can you smell the weed smoke billowing in from Colorado and California? Have you read about the citizens of Maine and Massachusetts who turned into zombies from puffing blunts all ...