It really ought to be more humbling than it is, just how much popular and progressive moral authority was lined up behind temperance and Prohibition the first t

It really ought to be more humbling than it is, just how much popular and progressive moral authority was lined up behind temperance and Prohibition the first time. I understand now we have the narrative that the war on drugs was an explicit ploy of oppression but I have to believe that it was at least helped along by the same feature of our psyches that gave us the 1920s.