Delta Dispatch

Prohibition History and What It Means for Cannabis

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What does alcohol's 200-year regulatory rollercoaster tell us about cannabis beverages today? UC Santa Barbara historian Lisa Jacobson, author of Intoxicating Pleasures, walks through prohibition's failure, the unintended consequences of legal loopholes, and a counterintuitive fact: post-repeal enforcement was more restrictive than prohibition itself. The parallels to cannabis regulation today…