"'Human beings for millenia have been fermenting and then distilling alcohol, and anthropologically it's found in every culture in some way, shape or form,' said Burns. 'This was the first and only time any nonreligious government of a large population attempted to ban its use, and the results were at the least inept and at the most a wrongheaded understanding of our society.
"'You know, the thinking that Prohibition was going to work… you have to wonder, what were the sponsors drinking?'"
Christopher Smith in the Los Angeles Times talks with Ken Burns and Daniel Okrent about the new documentary Prohibition.
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