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The 18th Amendment, prohibiting the sale
of intoxicating liquors in the United States, was ratified by the
Michigan legislature. Michigan, which went dry on May 1, 1918—over a
year before the 18th Amendment providing for national prohibition became
effective—proved to be a battleground for the smuggling of illegal booze
into the United Sates. It was estimated that during the years of
Prohibition (until 1933), 75 percent of all the booze smuggled into the
United States crossed at the Detroit/Windsor border.
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