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Commentary on Wet v Dry: Prohibition ended December 5, 1933 The writer states his reasons for believing, on balance, that legal, controlled sales of alcoholic beverages is the better choice; and why, even though legal won't eliminate every problem immediately, it will be far better in the long run. He will sign the petition and vote to give legal sales a chance, he says. By Ralph Roy Waggener, Editor & Publisher It's Just for a Smile News Personal Commentary. Previously published in December 2015 IJFASN and edited to reflect changes in immediate preceding days and for ColumbiaMagazine.com Ten years before I was born prohibition ended after 13 years of causing more problems in the USA than we had before it started a total of 82 years. What seemed like a good idea at the time had the reverse affect with illegal sales of alcoholic beverages going Gang Busters literally. More crime was linked to this period and the money made by mobs than in all our history. Most states have had legal sales of alcohol for years. In Kentucky - the home of most all the whiskey distilled in the USA - had more counties and cities that only had illegal sales other than in our largest cities. Lebanon has had legal sale longer than most all Kentucky counties east and south of it. Lebanon is one a great place to live now and has a lot of factories and places of employment for a town of its size. Campbellsville, Glasgow, Somerset, E-town are cities around us that have gone wet recently and Russell County has a vote coming up and has over 3,000 signatures on a petition to go on the ballot to be vote. Will we follow as we usually do, never being the lead town but the follower! Columbia will have better control of the sale of alcoholic beverages by having legal sales versus having illegal sales; just makes sense to have legal sales. I believe we have the same amount of consumption of beer and whisky with legal sales because most that drink bring it home to Columbia and Adair when they are in a wet city. Some already buy from our local illegal sources. And there will be about the same amount of use, I believe, whether wet or dry. I don't believe we will get much revenue from taxes but we could see people using our other businesses because of legal sales of alcoholic beverages being available here. We have to worry about our youth drinking, that's for sure, I have been on many a run to Marion County to buy beer when I was a youngster and most of the time the beer was consumed by the time we made it back to Columbia. Should I gone on these runs? No, but young people are just going to try things, especially if they are told not to do them. Will youngsters still drink beer and whiskey if it's available here, of course that won't change. Young people tend to try things that they are told not to do. We have had one of the largest sales of illegal drugs in the entire state for several years. I believe it is somewhat better now than in times past, not sure. For whatever reason, illegal sales have overwhelmed law enforcement at all levels. Worse, potentially, illegal sales can have a corrupting infuence not only on law enforcement, but on all levels of government. Some people want to connect drug sales to alcohol sales, saying that drinking leads to illegal drug use; not sure but legal sales will at least be controlled better than illegal sales. I'll cast my vote for legal sales of alcoholic beverages. I think it's long overdue and will be a plus for Columbia and Adair County although the county will not vote in or be a part of this vote (note this was written before Progress in Adair (PAC) decided to make it a countywide vote for some reason). Prohibition did not work and only grew illegal sales. The Mafia made millions and millions and a lot of innocent lives were lost from this ill-planned idea of stopping people from drinking. Most people drink moderately or where they won't have to drive, and, yes, some don't; this will always be with legal or illegal sales. This just won't change! This story was posted on 2016-01-11 08:56:28
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