Results tagged “prohibition”

Today marks the 75th anniversary of the end of Prohibition via the 21st Amendment, a.k.a. Repeal Day. It's hard to fathom that for thirteen sad, dark years (1920 to 1933), our fine country was dry (or at least, legally so). Considering earlier this week was also the 75th anniversary of the bloody mary, there's twice as much to celebrate this year.

Two weeks after a gunman at Folklife injured three people, Mayor Greg Nickels announced his plan to ban guns from all city-owned property. Yesterday, Wash. State Attorney General Rob McKenna (defending his office against challenger John Ladenburg in November's election) released an official legal opinion concluding that Nickels does not have the authority to order the prohibition.

Despite Seattle's herb-friendly reputation, there sure have been a lot of highly publicized marijuana arrests lately. Every time we refresh the local news sites it seems there is a new headline about an even larger scale bust. KIRO 7 has even started calling them "marijuana raids"--which is so Prohibition Era of them.