Pubdate: Mon, 04 Aug 2003
Source: Calgary Sun, The (CN AB)
Copyright: 2003 The Calgary Sun
Contact:  http://www.fyicalgary.com/calsun.shtml
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/67
Author: Malcolm Kyle
Note: Parenthetical remark by the Sun editor, headline by newshawk

ALCOHOL PROHIBITION AND THE GREAT DEPRESSION

I CANNOT help thinking that maybe it might help if you were to point out to
the anti-drug warriors that it probably was not a coincidence that the great
stock market crash of 1929 happened during the years of alcohol prohibition
(1919-33) and that the Great Depression may not have been cured by the new
deal but was more likely alleviated by the repeal of prohibition. "The worst
may be yet to come."

Malcolm Kyle

Hague, Holland

(An interesting theory but highly unlikely.)
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