1931 Prohibition Crisis in Germany
Readers saw in Prohibition and The Crash how U.S. Call Money rates skyrocketed when Congress decreed beer and wine felony drugs with the 02MAR1929 Five & Ten law.( link ) Once the League of Nations Opium Advisory Committee recommended, and the League itself adopted replacing markets with meddling on a global basis in its 1929-1930 sessions , the largest and most competent pharmaceutical companies in the world understood they had again been singled out for rough handling. I.G. Farben was--despite the prior restrictions that brought on WW1--the world's fourth-largest corporation of any kind in 1931. All through 1930, Committeemen from opiate-producing nations waved reports of drug seizures like bloody shirts as rhetorical openings for the heaping of scorn and opprobrium. What changed in 1931 was packing the committee with violently prohibitionist "victim" members to draw up regulations to forever ban laissez-faire markets from the face of the planet . Fanatical pr...