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• n  a reformer who opposes the use of intoxicating beverages

• A stern prohibitionist, Dentist Welch determined forthwith to banish Bacchus from the altar.
• San Francisco The decoy sign outside speakeasy-themed Bourbon Branch advertises the ANTI-LEAGUE SALOON, the prohibitionist group founded 113 years before the bar opened.
• He ridicules traditional environmentalists as prohibitionist scolds who want us to drive wimpy cars and live like monks; he's selling a future of a clean environment and a booming .

• dry

News & Articles

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• Drinking debate continues - Sat, 17 Aug 2013 PST
  An unapologetic drinker, writer H.L. Mencken blamed Prohibition on American moralists’ distaste for happiness. “A Puritan is not against bullfighting because of the pain it gives the bull,” he wrote, “but because of the pleasure it gives the spectators.” Today’s neo-prohibitionists know that fist-banging sermons about demon rum sound dated, so they’ve medicalized the warnings: Alcohol causes ...
  Aug. 17, 2013 - The Spokesman-Review

Quotes

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• Shelley Berkley in The Age
  The clock is ticking on President Bush's prohibitionist crusade against Internet gaming and that is clearly why these flawed regulations are being forced on the financial services industry at the very last minute,Rep. Shelley Berkley, D-Nev.,...
• Ernesto Zedillo in World Politics Review
  ...Henrique Cardoso of Brazil, César Gaviria of Colombia and Ernesto Zedillo of Mexico, working together on the Latin American Commission on Drugs and Democracy, argued, "Prohibitionist policies based on eradication, interdiction and...
• Cesar Gaviria in guardian.co.uk
  We consider the war on drugs a failure because the objectives have never been achieved,said César Gaviria, Colombia's former president and co-chair of the Latin American Commission on Drugs and Democracy. "Prohibitionist policies based on...