Statement Submitted to the Honourables the Chairman and Members of the Licenses Commission of the Province of Quebec on Behalf of the Brewers of the ... Option and Prohibition Laws (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Excerpt from Statement Submitted to the Honourables the Chairman and Members of the Licenses Commission of the Province of Quebec on Behalf of the Brewers of the Province of Quebec: Showing the Results of Local Option and Prohibition Laws

This result has sprung from two errors. The first of these has been the assumption that summary legislation can at once change customs and habits, and exercise coercion. The second error has been the confusing of the mild drinks with the strong intoxicants, placing them in the same category and penalizing their sale alike.

From the earliest introduction of prohibition, the consequence was that the sale of beers, being bulky in transportation and easy of detection, was driven out of prohibition communities and enormous quantities of whiskey were smuggled in and sold either in what were called blind pigs or blind tigers or peddled about in grips, suitcases or by the bottle. This situation has often been accompanied by another factor, namely, the conversion of raw alcohol into intoxicating drinks within the very confines of prohibition regions.

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