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Hello and

Hello and welcome to Prism of the Past, a semi-weekly series about historical events, people and situations,

from the fascinating to the forgotten.

I'm the Illuminati and today on Prism prism of the past we're going to be

talking a bit about prohibition. I couldn't address everything on prohibition

related in one episode so today we're going to focus primarily on alcohol itself that people

drink at the time and a few pieces of context here and there. One extremely

common misconception is that during the era the government was poisoning people to get them to stop drinking alcohol.

The thing is this is sort of a half truth, at least in the way it's been spread on the internet.

The government did begin poisoning alcohol and prohibition, but they poisoned alcohol that was never meant for human consumption in the first place, like industrial alcohol and perfumes and laundry detergents through a process called the naturing.

So while the memes you may have seen

about the government poisoning people aren't wrong, it is a bit more complicated

nuanced and even darker than you may know. After all, the federal government was aware that people were trying to repurpose this alcohol

for consumption, but they continued to poison it anyway, killing thousands.

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