Thank goodness we ended Prohibition

As Tiana Lowe noted in her excellent piece earlier today on the 85th anniversary of the end of Prohibition, the nanny-state Prohibition experiment surely would have left America’s Founding Fathers “horrified.”

Thomas Jefferson’s Treasury secretary, Albert Gallatin, once gave Jefferson this warning: “Governmental prohibitions do always more mischief than had been calculated, and it is not without much hesitation that a statesman should try to regulate the concerns of individuals, as if he could do it better than themselves.”