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While the pandemic made me take a hiatus from writing, it sure didn't stop people from reading! Driven (unsurprisingly) by an article about where drive-thru drinks are legal, and by a recent increase in curiosity over why chicken wings are legally considered sandwiches in Colorado, people seem to be finding the site useful. And what more can a booze nerd ask for, really? #drinkhistory #legallydrunk
Summertime smash of gin, cucumber, basil and lime. Homemade #clearice cut to fit the Cologne Cathedral glasses @jonlang got me years ago. Wife @hedge_and_hearth sweetened hers up with her #homemade #foraged elderflower syrup!
Negronis, new puppy (who won't sit still for a picture), and post-thunderstorm summer evenings on the porch.
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  • Why the Drinking Age is 21 in Every State
  • The Drunkest Time in American History
  • Mail-Order Alcohol: why you can’t get that niche bourbon (and why you might be able to soon)
  • Emergency Booze: 4 Times Alcohol Laws Changed in Response to Crisis
  • How the Civil Service Helped End Prohibition
  • The First American Liquor Laws
  • Prohibition’s Racist Underbelly
  • The Maine Law
  • Dry Republicans, Wet Democrats? Alcohol and Party Politics in American History
  • A Brief History of Indian Alcohol Policy
  • The Whiskey Trust
  • Members Only: The History (and Legal Niche) of the Private Club
  • The Three Mile Limit: Booze on Boats
  • The Whiskey Ring
  • Liquoring Up the Electorate
  • Beginner’s Guide to the Whiskey Rebellion
  • Happy Hour Laws: States’ Quest To Keep People Happy, But Not That Happy
  • Lewis Rosenstiel, Capitalist Champion of America’s ‘Native Spirit’
  • When Rockefeller and DuPont Took On Prohibition
  • The Taft Decision: What is Whiskey, Anyway?
  • A (Very Brief) History of Straight Whiskey
  • The Brown Jug Bills
  • Dram Shop Laws
  • A Brief History of “Bottled In Bond”
  • Chicken Wings are Sandwiches in Colorado
  • Your Liquor is Lying to You, and That’s Okay
  • The 15-Gallon Law: Pack My Box With Five Dozen Liquor Jugs
  • The “Habitual Drunkard:” Virginia’s Downright Prehistoric Anti-Homeless Law.
  • Kentucky’s 80 Different Liquor Licenses
  • Drive-Thru Daiquiris
  • War Between the Wine States
  • Boozy Trade Wars
  • The Government Can’t Decide If Whiskey Is Gluten Free
  • A Tall Whiskey COLA: Navigating a Web of US Labeling Laws
  • Why Aren’t There Nutrition Labels On Alcohol?
  • Do Higher Taxes Reduce Drinking’s Problems?
  • Home Distilling: Yep, Still Illegal
  • Appalachian Appellations: The Quest to Protect Bourbon from Foreign Imitators
  • Behind the Zion Curtain: Utah’s Unorthodox Approach To Keeping Liquor Away From Innocent Eyes
  • Three Cheers, Three Tiers: Why Alcohol Production, Distribution, and Sales are Legally Separate
  • Prohibition’s Legacy
  • You have a baby… In a bar! How Laws About Kids In Bars Have Adapted (or not) to Changing Times
  • 3.2%: Why Some State Laws Distinguish Between “Light” and “Heavy” Beer
  • Intro to Control States: Where the Government Runs the Liquor Business
  • Blue Laws: Football Season Edition
  • Beer Street and Gin Lane: Why Liquor is Treated Differently from Beer and Wine
  • Now Open Sundays: A Brief History of American Blue Laws
  • Intro: The Adventures of John Barleycorn and his Uncle Sam

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January 8, 2020January 8, 2020

A Brief History of Indian Alcohol Policy

Prohibition, Alcohol as a Weapon, and the Myth of the Drunken Indian

Tagged alcohol, alcoholism, American history, American Indians, booze, Drunken Indian, history, inthespiritofthelaw, law, liquor law, native americans, pine ridge reservation, Prohibition, Whiteclay. 1 Comment
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