sounds like a silly question. but the 18th amendment said what was illegal was "..the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors." And the volstead act said: “no person shall manufacture, sell, barter, transport, import, export, deliver, furnish or possess any intoxicating liquor except as authorized by this act.” Depending on how you view the use of the word "possess", it's not made clear whether or not you can drink the alcohol. obviously you can look at it whichever way suits your interest. but I wonder how the majority of law enforcment viewed it at the time. If they considered having it in your stomach to be "possessing" alcohol, or if once it was in you you were safe, as long as you weren't cavorting around with a bottle in your hand. it seems possession could easily have to do with possesion in reguards to distribution.
any historians or law men out there know how this was usually handled at the time by law enforcement and lawyers?
2007-09-04
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