Prescription booze. Yup,
during Prohibition doctors could prescribe alcohol, up to one pint at a time. I'd run into that little factoid before, but somehow I'd missed the rather close parallel to the current “medical marijuana” dispensaries. I particularly enjoyed the transparent hypocrisy of the AMA.
Before prohibition, they declared that alcohol had no therapeutic value at all.
After prohibition, when their members could make a quick buck by issuing prescriptions, they changed their tune – all of a sudden government interference was totally unreasonable restriction on doctors' ability to practice medicine...
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