Deborah Blum at Slate is telling "The little-told story of how the U.S. government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition with deadly consequences."
Seems the feds were frustrated by Americans' failure to quit during prohibition and decided they could more proactively discourage alcohol consumption if they poisoned it. Says Blum:
"By the time Prohibition ended in 1933, the federal poisoning program, by some estimates, had killed at least 10,000 people."
The Federal Poisoning Program?! One government initiative Republicans Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover could get behind apparently.
Cheap shot, sure... but it wasn't the Dems who presided over Prohibition. Next time you crack open a beer without risk of arrest or death by poisoning, just thank FDR.
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