Prohibition Prescription

The 18th amendment to the United States Constitution was passed in 1919 which prohibited the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcohol. It did not prohibit the owning or consumption of alcohol. People were able to get their alcohol from the local pharmacy with a doctor's prescription. If the pharmacy would run out of their monthly supply, they would go to a local supplier who would make the alcohol out of wood alcohol which caused people to go blind among other problems. The government decided that the 18th amendment was to difficult to enforce so the 19th amendment to the United States Constitution was passed ending Prohibition in the United States in 1933. On that date my uncle Al Capone was in prison for doing things that were now legal. There is much more to this story that will come later.