California Proposition 22 (1918)
From Ballotpedia
Proposition 22 appeared on the ballot in California in 1918 as an initiated state statute. Its goal was to make the manufacture, sale or distribution of alcohol a misdemeanour.
It was defeated at the polls.
The Prohibition Amendment had appeared on the California ballot, and been defeated, just four short years earlier.
Two other alcohol-related measures appeared on the 1914 California ballot--California Proposition 39 (1914) and California Proposition 47 (1914)--both of which were geared toward mitigating the impact of the drive to prohibit alcohol in the state.
California Proposition 2 (1916) appeared on the 1916 ballot--it also lost--which attempted to prohibit alcohol by prohibiting its use.
California Proposition 1 (1918) appeared with Proposition 22 on the 1918; they both lost.
