---

• n  a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages
  in 1920 the 18th amendment to the Constitution established prohibition in the US
• n  a decree that prohibits something
• n  the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment
• n  refusal to approve or assent to
• n  the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof)
  they were restrained by a prohibition in their charter

• The greater part of a decade has elapsed since prohibition became national and the word Volstead was minted for household use.
• The prohibition question became involved again in its continual melee by an unexpected turn of events.
• The subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee last week closed its hearings on prohibition, and so a great talk fest came to an end.

• ban
• proscription
• prohibition era
• inhibition
• forbiddance

News & Articles

---

• Meet Seattle Cider Company – City’s First Cider Producer Since Prohibition
  You are reading Meet Seattle Cider Company – City’s First Cider Producer Since Prohibition by Kendall Jones, as originally posted on The Washington Beer Blog. You are reading Meet Seattle Cider Company – City’s First Cider Producer Since Prohibition by Kendall Jones, as originally posted on The Washington Beer Blog. It’s one of those things they never taught us in elementary school. Actually, it ...
  June 13, 2013 - seattlepi.com
• Big transportation bill includes tough sanctions for cell-talking truckers
  A wide-ranging transportation bill signed into law by Gov. Rick Scott fortifies a prohibition on truckers and bus drivers texting — or even talking on a cell phone, without a wireless device. Rep. Irv Slosberg, D-Boca Raton, said the measure (HB 7125) signed by Scott late Wednesday, aligns Florida with an existing federal ban, but [...]
  June 13, 2013 - The Palm Beach Post
• Texas-Bound Shipment Of Popular Whiskey Stolen, $10,000 Reward Offered By S.C. Distiller
  CHARLESTON, S.C., June 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Matti Anttila, owner and president of Chicken Cock Whiskey, a brand that originally gained notoriety during the prohibition era, has offered a $10,000 reward ...
  June 13, 2013 - PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance

Quotes

---

• Antonin Scalia in De Pere Journal
  In his opinion, Scalia wrote, "The enshrinement of constitutional rights necessarily takes certain policy choices off the table. Those include the absolute prohibition of handguns held and used for self-defense in the home."
• Patrick Leahy in Forbes
  Instead, we are going to continue to focus our attention on a league-wide program ensuring that all teams have appropriate policies, clearly communicated to their employees, focusing on respect in the workplace including the prohibition of sexual... David Stern http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Stern&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGIAMcpNLVMdBMZyP1MwrbIQwXPUw USA Today http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.usatoday.com/sports/basketball/nba/knicks/2007-12-11-thomas-no-punishment_N.htm&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFGQC7HVd19J4Tfa9stK2JlQZBvfw Dec 11, 2007 77979 104981 prohibition Unsaid, of course, is the fact that any such prohibition would have to be enacted over the veto of this president," Leahy, D-Vt., said in remarks prepared for his panel's vote Tuesday to advance Mukasey's nomination to the full Senate.