Medicinal whiskey was not merely a loophole for individual drinkers but a distinct system connecting bonded warehouses, distillers, physicians, pharmacists, and patients.
A secondary overview; exact dates, prescription rules, licenses, and quantities should be confirmed from statutes, regulations, and archival records.
During Prohibition, medicinal whiskey came from government-bonded stocks, was bottled at one hundred proof in pints, dispensed under quantity limits, and later replenished through controlled distillation by specifically licensed distillers when warehouse inventories ran low.
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Chapter 7 — Prohibition
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