Comments on: White Lightning, Appalachian Mountain, & Moonshine Liquor Stills (Issue 205)

By: Anne Cleveland

Anne Cleveland — Fri, 01 May 2009 22:52:42 +0000

Hi Kent,
Those mountain folks have such a wonderful entreprenurial spirit of survival. And those Ihave known in my life-time who drink the corn liquor, sell it, haul it and make it feel, political government has no Rights to the monoply they claim and exercise over it.
Anne Cleveland
Chief Editor

By: Kent McManigal

Kent McManigal — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:17:41 +0000

I often wonder whether “meth” would be such a problem had the feds just left the moonshiners alone (not to mention marijuana growers). If you criminalize one thing, enterpreneurial folks will find something else. If you criminalize everything, folks will go for the thing that produces the most profit for the amount of time and effort.