PROHIBITION...was it a mistake?

PROHIBITION...was it a mistake?

You can't really forbid alcohol and cigarettes, they're too popular and the organised crimes will always find a way to either produce them locally or import them. The only sensible option is to try to reduce the use.

It was a noble attempt

Alcohol is such an ingrained part of human culture. How could the US, of all places pass laws making it illegal?

Alcohol pretty much numbs your misery. You can argue it's a necessary drug for the masses. And relatively save, minus the alcoholics or drunk car accidents.

Because the US is populated by extreme sects of Christianity?

>relatively save
That's retarded on multiple levels

Not really. It had the right purpose but the wrong approach to the systemic problem.

Why were women so pro prohibition?

Is it true that most men went out and got drunk then came home and beat their wives?

Alcoholism was such a massive problem at that time that there was enough public support to get the amendment approved.
More often, I imagine the harm came from men spending all of the family's money on booze or being too drunk to work.

Futile, not a mistake. A society that cannot keep heroin away from inmates on Death Row can not possibly hope to keep fermented beverages away from a free peoples.

>spends family money on alcohol
>beats you while drunk or in best case scenario is useless
Yeah, it's a problem

>PROHIBITION...was it a mistake?
Not if you wanted to kiss the girls.

Did it stop after the Prohibition ended? Even now some husbands still abuse their wives and kids. Or some alcoholic single mothers beating up their kids.

>>spends family money on alcohol
>>beats you while drunk or in best case scenario is useless
>Yeah, it's a problem
Jesus fucking Christ are you purposefully being retarded? Obviously those things are a problem. The question was about how wide spread it was

>Illegal sales are not officially reported or measured, but there are indirect estimates using alcohol related deaths and cirrhosis, a liver disease specifically tied to ongoing alcohol consumption.[112] Scholars estimate that consumption dropped to a low of about 60% of pre-prohibition levels around 1925, rising to almost 80% before the law was officially repealed.[citation needed] After the prohibition was implemented, alcohol continued to be consumed. However, how much compared to pre-Prohibition levels remains unclear. Studies examining the rates of cirrhosis deaths as a proxy for alcohol consumption estimated a decrease in consumption of 10–20%.[113][114][115] However, the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism's studies show clear epidemiological evidence that "overall cirrhosis mortality rates declined precipitously with the introduction of Prohibition," despite widespread flouting of the law.[116] One study reviewing city-level drunkenness arrests came to a similar result.[117] And, yet another study examining "mortality, mental health and crime statistics" found that alcohol consumption fell, at first, to approximately 30 percent of its pre-Prohibition level; but, over the next several years, increased to about 60–70 percent of its pre-prohibition level.[118]
Nothing about rates of domestic abuse. I bet you could spin a good study out of that question

Yes, it was a genuine widespread problem. But outright prohibition wasn't the solution.

>The question was about how wide spread it was
So-so

Such as?

Because the U.S is a miserable shithole.

Prohibition was a colossal mistake.

First off it made the Mafia unbelievably fucking wealthy, but it also eroded people's trust in the government and the law.
Making it ILLEGAL to consume alcohol, a drink people had been enjoying for literal centuries, vilifying something that had evolved into a cultural standard really made the public as a whole, for the first time, look at the Government and think that it was retarded.

Plus, since the majority of people pushing for prohibition were bible-thumping Christcucks it also acted as more ash in the mouths of religious skeptics who had even less faith in the faithful than they had ever had.

People began to lose respect for the law because they saw the enactment of Prohibition as unnecessary and useless, and most folk would go to private or secret bars to drink.

When you add all that up, I think it'd be fair to say that prohibition did more harm than good.

Alcohol should be legal. Drunkenness should be illegal.

Any form of government control over what people can buy is a mistake.

And they did try with blue book laws that prevented alcohol consumption on certain days. The crafty bartender would give his "friend" a book with a hole cut in the pages with a bottle of whiskey inside.

>only thots and mudslimes advocate
All you must know

>driving 200 miles per hour and having sex at the same time should be legal
>only crashing the car should be illegal

But why punish people for the inevitable and scientifically demonstrable results of their actions if the initial action is legal? Drinking adds alcohol to the body. Alcohol causes drunkenness. If the drinking isn't illegal, why is the drunkenness illegal?

It was part of Proddy hatred of Catholicism. Prods saw Poles and Irish hanging out drinking and having a merry old time, and so they had to rain on everyone's parade.

To restate your silly analogy
>driving a car is legal
>driving over the speed limit isn't
Everything in moderation, user

>he doesn't know about the germans

It's religous motive was a mistake but it in itself was a good thing.
The bigger mistake was sticking with constitutional rights when it came to creatures like al capone.
The goverment should simply have had him dragged through the chicago streets to the courthouse where he would recieve summary public execution in light if his defiance if the state.