SOC130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Hogshead
15 May 2020
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The problem isn"t that gin made wasted men and women. But he used gin as a simple, cheap way to escape not as an intoxicant but as a. In fact, this was the prototype of future drug scares, featuring many of the features drug that were to become so familiar; among them, the first parliamentary debate on the issue of prohibition was published. 20 shillings a gallon should be levied on spirits sold by retail. In the commons, sir john jekyll, horrified by the facts, suggested that a duty of. Sir william pulteney had objected to the motion. Pulteney stressed that this was not because he had anything to say in favor of spirit consumption, which had become unhealthy and mischievous, sapping the health and morals of the people. His criticism was that the policy amounted to a prohibition. The spirits that had previously been available were actually replaced by an illegal.
