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Prohibition started early in Nevada
In December 1918, Nevada?s Supreme Court certified the state?s vote and prohibition became Nevada law as of midnight on Dec. 17, 1918. As a result, the state went dry a month before it ratified the 18th Amendment on Jan. 16, 1919. In the Nevada Historical Society Quarterly in 1976, author Harold Smith wrote, Early Nevada […]