If you’ve ever wondered what would happen if we banned alcohol and we reinstated prohibition, they answer is a whole lot of meth. In the U.S. there are some places that ban the sale of alcohol. These are called dry counties. Dry counties that prohibit alcohol sales seem to have a bigger meth problem that other countries.

John Iadarola (Think Tank), Hannah Cranston (Think Tank), and Ben Mankiewicz (What The Flick?!) break it down. Does banning alcohol ever end well? Let us know in the comments.

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“Dry counties” that prohibit alcohol sales seem to have a bigger meth problem than other counties.

That’s the thought-provoking conclusion of a new paper by researchers at the University of Louisville. In the state of Kentucky, some counties (“dry”) prohibit alcohol sales completely. Others allow it only within certain municipalities (“moist,”) or don’t place restrictions on alcohol sales at all (“wet”).

The Louisville researchers noticed that dry counties had higher rates of meth lab busts, as well as higher rates of meth crimes overall. And the effect is significant: “if all counties were to become wet, the total number of meth lab seizures in Kentucky would decline by about 25 percent,” they found.