# American Bar Association and prohibition

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [February 24, 2013, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-bar-association-and-prohibition/651276 "2013-02-24T18:47:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![Donnerwetter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Donnerwetter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Donnerwetter)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2013, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-bar-association-and-prohibition/651276/1 "2013-02-24T18:47:04Z")

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I wonder how the American Bar Association fared during the Prohibition Era.

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**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-bar-association-and-prohibition/651276/2 "2013-02-25T01:50:50Z")

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Business dried up.

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**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-bar-association-and-prohibition/651276/3 "2013-02-25T02:16:17Z")

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They were sobering times.

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**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-bar-association-and-prohibition/651276/4 "2013-02-25T02:36:12Z")

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Their members probably ended up being a bunch of thirsty lawyers.

[American Bar Association](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Bar_Association).

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**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-bar-association-and-prohibition/651276/5 "2013-02-25T05:45:06Z")

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Probably good for business. Note that it wasn’t illegal to drink-you just could not SELL booze legally. If you belonged to a private club, and your club laid in a big supply of booze in 1919, you could drink all the way till 1933, totally legally. The volume of offenses (against prohibition) became so huge that most judges just threw the cases out.