Prohibition - As bad as it ever was?

It's heavy stuff but the stream of ironies should keep any American poker player going through this analysis of the 20th Century Prohibition and its myths.

"In later statements, [Pauline Sabin, who initially favoured Prohibition] elaborated further on her objections to prohibition. With settlement workers reporting increasing drunkenness, she worried, 'The young see the law broken at home and upon the street. Can we expect them to be lawful?
'...in pre-prohibition days, mothers had little fear in regard to the saloon as far as their children were concerned. A saloon-keeper's license was revoked if he were caught selling liquor to minors. Today in any speakeasy in the United States you can find boys and girls in their teens drinking liquor...' " - from Repealing National Prohibition by David Kyvig

"You will find that the workingmen of this country, 90 per cent of them, are either making wines, beer or whisky out of every known vegetable and fruit that exists. Everyone has his own special concoction. They even make wine out of parsnips and such stuff." - Testimony of William J. McSorley, Hearings before the Subcommittee of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, 1926

That's what we need 90 years on. Parsnip Neteller.