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Prohibition’s Deadly Legacy: Federal Murder During America’s “Dry” Era 1920-1933
Prohibition, often romanticized as a time of speakeasies and bootleggers, had a dark underbelly that remains a haunting reminder of its failed experiment. While the banning of alcohol in the United States from 1920 to 1933 aimed to curb social ills, it unwittingly unleashed a deadly epidemic of alcohol poisoning.