December 5, 1933
National Prohibition is repealed—but West Virginia's ban remains
Ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment ended national Prohibition and the federal framework behind many liquor prosecutions and raids. West Virginia, however, still had its own constitutional prohibition amendment; state voters would repeal it the following year.
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