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achived URL: http://www.cato.org/event.php?eventid=5256

event website URL: http://www.cato.org/event.php?eventid=5256

start date and time: Friday, December 5, 2008 at 3:30 PM

end date and time: Friday, December 5, 2008 at 5:45 PM

categories:   historical

event description:

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The Cato Institute in Washington, D.C. presents a panel discussion on Free to Booze - The 75th Anniversary of the Repeal of Prohibition. Prohibition was ended on December 5, 1933 when the 21st Amendment to the Constitution was ratified. The panel will discuss the history and the continuing impacts of the national ban on alcohol. Brandon Arnold from the Cato Institute will moderate the discussion.

The panel will include -

- Michael Lerner - author of Dry Manhattan: Prohibition in New York City

- Glen Whitman - author of Strange Brew: Alcohol and Government Monopoly

- Asheesh Agarwal - Former Assistant Director of the Federal Trade Commission's Office of Policy Planning

- Radley Balko - Senior Editor of Reason

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