The Bootleggers’ Trust: Inside Maryland’s Rebellious Prohibition Era

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — After the United States passed the Volstead Act in October 1919, creating a federal enforcement mechanism for Prohibition, most states followed suit with their own enforcement laws. Maryland did not. When the manufacture, sale and transportation of intoxicating liquor became illegal nationwide on Jan. 17, 1920, Maryland took an unusual position. Maryland […] The post The…