Yeah, there were historic cases dating to the prohibition era/early 20th century. And there were historic laws – largely unenforced – that stayed on the books for a while. Laws based on total nonsense. It just got caught up as part of garden-variety moral panic.
There’s definitely still an air around the spirit that it is somehow more illicit and special. Which it… really isn’t.
Yeah, there were historic cases dating to the prohibition era/early 20th century. And there were historic laws – largely unenforced – that stayed on the books for a while. Laws based on total nonsense. It just got caught up as part of garden-variety moral panic.
There’s definitely still an air around the spirit that it is somehow more illicit and special. Which it… really isn’t.