This article investigates the reasons for the adoption and rejection of liquor dispensaries in the years prior to the adoption of national prohibition in the United States. Southern municipalities were the primary dispensary locations, largely due to the permissiveness of local option laws in the South. Municipalities with dispensaries were often retreating from prohibition and dispensary supporters argued that publically run liquor stores were the next best thing. Beyond the South, states that explored dispensary adoption also were those repealing prohibition laws, suggesting a larger pattern whereby prohibition preceded dispensaries rather than following them.

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从禁令到酒药店：解释国家和市政酒类商店的兴衰，1891-1907

本文调查了在美国实行国家禁令之前的几年里，酒药房的采用和拒绝的原因。南部城市是主要的药房地点，主要是由于南部当地选择法的许可。设有药房的市政当局经常退出禁令，药房的支持者认为，公共经营的酒类商店是次佳选择。在南方之外，探索采用药房的州也是那些废除禁令法的州，这表明了一种更大的模式，即禁令先于药房，而不是紧随其后。