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Drug laws in Australia are preventing tobacco users from switching to safer forms of nicotine use, particularly through unrealistic vaping laws. Dr John Jiggens writes. OVER THE PAST five decades, drug policy in Australia has been contested between two main groups: the prohibitionists, who aim to ban social drugs by criminalising users and consumers; and […]
One of Dallas’s best-kept secrets remains just as recondite as it was during its Prohibition heyday. Top o’ Hill Terrace, known to some as “Vegas before Vegas,” was designed and built to cover outright debauchery under a façade of only the most prim and proper dining that the suburbs of Dallas could offer. Top o’ Hill […]
Suspense author Sharon Short shares the rich history behind Middle Island, the real-life location that inspired her new novel, Trouble Island. Middle Island, Lake Eerie, Ontario, Canada. Photo courtesy Wikipedia Commons. Years ago, I accompanied one of my daughters on her fifth-grade trip to Middle Bass Island, just off the shore of Ohio in Lake […]
A 1915 advert for Cascade Whisky from the Rock Island Argus. Nashville From the 1890s through the tumultuous years leading to Prohibition, the city of Nashville was very much like the wild west—a bustling, exciting, changing, and dangerous place. Political debates and rallies were frequently held in the downtown streets with hordes in attendance. Legal […]