Jump to content

Prohibition (disambiguation)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by PierrothL (talk | contribs) at 17:00, 5 June 2015. The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Prohibition refers to the act of prohibiting a certain substance or act.

Prohibition may refer to:

  • Prohibition of alcohol — periods in several countries during which the manufacture, transportation, import, export, and sale of alcoholic beverages is restricted or illegal
  • Prohibition of drugs
    • War on Drugs — an initiative undertaken by the United States to carry out an "all-out offensive" (as President Nixon described it) against the possession of certain drugs by moving them into the purview of the black market
  • Prohibition sign ("no" symbol) — a red circle with a diagonal line through it (running from top left to bottom right), covering a pictogram to indicate something is not permitted
  • Prohibition (miniseries) — A Ken Burns documentary on the American temperance movement and prohibition
  • Writ of prohibition — in the United States, is an official legal document drafted and issued by a supreme court or superior court to a judge presiding over a suit in an inferior court. The writ of prohibition mandates the inferior court to cease any action over the case because it may not fall within that inferior court's jurisdiction
  • In the Quran, sura 66, At-Tahrim, is generally translated as "Prohibition".
  • Prohibition (album), an album by French avant-garde singer Brigitte Fontaine.