PBS Previews: Prohibition -- from Ken Burns and Lynn Novick 

This is on PBS right now. I missed this documentary the first time it aired, so hey--got another chance to watch this. :)

Replace all the alcohol words with drugs.. NO DIFFERENCE, Ron Paul 2012

What song plays at the beginning of the trailer?

@Pandaonfire5 louis armstrongs st james infirmary...or maybe another artist but that is the name of the song.

@mcav12 Song at 15:00 is East St. Louis Toodle-Oo

@Pandaonfire5 St. James' Infirmary. Not sure who the artist is.

@GoongalaGoongala Heroin and cocaine are tremendously more profitable than cheap booze. Would you rather smuggle 100 pounds of rum or 100 pounds of cocaine or heroin? See, modern prohibition could succeed. Allow weak wines, weak beers, and expensive liquors, and outlaw everything else. Say it's wrong if that's what you believe. But don't say it isn't possible. Law enforcement is so much more powerful today than ever before in all of human history.

Misandrist pornography. Song at 15:00 is East St. Louis Toodle-Oo. Prohibition could succeed today because law enforcement is so much stronger. Homeland securitity can find a suitcase bomb, so a barrell of rum is no challenge, and a barrell of cocaine or heroin is so much more profitable. Just don't outlaw all alcohol. Beer, wine, and expensive liquors okay. Cheap liquor? Tax it prohibitively. The whole story above is wrong. Say you're cheap liquor okay, don't say it can't be done.