Not for long since you Michiganers couldn't keep your bugs under control. /s
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We'll find out soon. The upcoming ballot initiative already is polling at 60% and higher.
Then again...that's before anti-forces have thrown millions of dollars in TV ads at it. Then again...that's before dispensaries that would rake it in if the initiative passes throw their own millions of dollars in TV ads at it.
The second half of next year is really going to be a joy in Battleground Ohio. This is why I have DVR...
What pushed alcohol prohibition over the edge of passing, was the federal income tax that started to pay for WW1.
Before that, alcohol taxes were too important for funding the federal government, and the temperance folks couldn't quite get the amendment to pass.
The depression cut the income tax receipts quite a bit, making repeal of prohibition easier.
Likely marijuana legalization is aided by the fact that many states are running budget deficits lately.
I wonder if the pot-grower monopoly that the Ohio proposal creates, will stand up under legal challenge.
Would anti-trust law make it illegal? Or are monopolies and trusts legal if the government says so?
Eh, I'd posit that the reaction of the older home folks to the returning flood of doughboys who had had free access to alcohol of all kinds and the attendant heavy self medication for undiagnosed shell shock is what pushed just enough more votes for Carrie A. Nation & Company. As in the old song, "How you gonna keep em down on the farm, after they've seen Paree?" I might add, Wilson vetoed it the first run through. Which given his statist predilictions is kind of amazing.
Here in the USA we still "denature" industrial ethanol by mixing in 10% methanol.
The purpose of this is to prevent people evading the taxes on beverage alcohol.
In effect, the USA punishes this form of tax evasion with agonizing death by poison, without trial.
So yes -- the US government is, in some ways, totally evil.