> After a recent bad experience around an alcoholic, I now understand, at least in part, why prohibition happened. Ken Burns did a good doc on Prohibition in t

> After a recent bad experience around an alcoholic, I now understand, at least in part, why prohibition happened. Ken Burns did a good doc on Prohibition in the US: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition_(miniseries) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition_(miniseries) The societal problems that the then-new process of distilling caused were enormous. Previously the strongest drinks were beer (<8%) and wine (<20%), but with high-proof spirits people got into all sorts of problems. Humans/society eventually adapted, but the intervening decades had a lot of people suffering.