Back Door to Prohibition: The New War on Social Drinking

By Radley Balko Radley Balko is the editor of Cato.org and a columnist for FoxNews.com. Executive Summary (To read the full analysis, Back_Door_to_Prohibition) December 2003 marks the 70th anniversary of the Twenty-First Amendment, which repealed alcohol prohibition in the United States. The 13 years between the passage of the Eighteenth and Twenty-First Amendments saw the […]

The Anti-Drunk Driving Campaign: A Covert War Against Drinking By Charles V. Pena Charles V. Pena is the former executive director of the MADD Northern Virginia Chapter and the former executive director of the American Council on Alcoholism. He is currently a policy studies director at the Cato Institute, www.cato.org, a public policy think tank […]

Study of Between-States Comparisons Excerpts from: Methodological Study of Between-States Comparisons, With Particular Application To .08% BAC Law Evaluation Author: Robert A. Scopatz, Ph.D. Data Nexus, Inc. 1040 Jason Ridge Court Kissimmee, FL 24747-1238 407/397-0574 bscopatz@phoenixat.com Transportaion Research Board 77th Annual Meeting January 11-15, 1998 Washington, D.C. For a complete survey, contact the NMA at […]

To order full report (hardcopy only): http://www.gao.gov Highway Safety: Effectiveness of State .08 Blood Alcohol Laws GAO/RCED-99-179, June 23 (30 pages). Most states make it illegal for someone to drive with a blood alcohol concentration (BAC) of .10–the level at which a person’s blood contains 1/10th of one percent alcohol. However, 16 states have more […]

One of the key issues of the BAC laws is the use of “alcohol-related” as a surrogate for “alcohol-caused.” The massive NHTSA, MADD et.al. misinformation campaign has long implied that the mere presence of alcohol, no matter how little or how much, in an auto accident victim’s system should be considered the cause of the […]