Believe it or not, my brother and I have benefited from prohibition. We own a three-story mansion built in the 1840's. The third story is slave quarters. It is in the foothills of the Ozarks. A distant relative who married into my mother's family was a moonshiner. He had local people making large quantities of liquor which he sold to the mob in St. Louis. He bought this grand old place with some of the proceeds. He apparently stayed in business with mobsters after prohibition was repealed. He was eventually shot in that old house--and the murder was never solved. Anyway, it passed through various relatives to us. The local legend about the place--which is on the historical register--doesn't mention any of this. It is about the two old ladies named Jane who lived and died there. Both lost their lovers on different sides of the Civil War. Nobody talks about prohibition, moonshine or mob hits.

Can the guest talk about doctors writing dubious "prescriptions" for alcohol?

How in your opinion was it possible that after such a failure of prohibition policy our country fell in a rather much deeper hole of drugs prohibition, and a much greater failure?
Do you think the corruption created by the war on drugs will forever deny us any possibility of reversing from the deadly course, or we are not yet beyond the point of no return?

My mother was born in 1920 and as a small girl she remembered her parents going out for an evening all dressed up in white tie and tails and beaded gown. Her father carried a brief case with, no doubt, a few bottles inside.

Would the author comment on linkage between loss of tax revenue during prohibition and the institution of federal income taxes? Thank you.

Can you please ask the guest about the role the Kennedy family played in production of liquor during the prohibition (Joseph K).

Perhaps, current politicians that want to restrict women's access to contraception, should take notice that - regardless of how "well-meaning" a movement is, when it goes against the basic elements of human nature - it will eventually fail.

The UK restricted hours for pubs came in just after the outbreak of World War I - driven, in part, by the Generals at the front complaining of artillery shells that didn't explode and the blame being apportioned to drunk factory workers. So they cut down on the pub hours and that stuck for decades.

What time will this discussion occur? I need to know,to see if I can listen.