2007-12-31 18:34:11 · 11 answers · asked by tony 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
As above, it didn't stop people drinking and it created a whole new black market in alcohol which was enormously profitable, just like the cocaine trade is today.
The "bootleggers" or manufacturers of illicit alcohol became enormously wealthy, corrupted the legal system, and created a great deal more crime.
Prohibition was a good example of a greater evil replacing a lesser evil.
2007-12-31 19:39:31 · answer #1 · answered by zucchinisisback 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Although Prohibition(s) are supposed to rid society of one evil, they always seem to trigger some more. The ban on alchohol in the 1920s didn't really reduce consumption, it just drove the consumption underground. It also made, at best, scoff laws of otherwise honest citizens like my grandparents!
The prohibition against marijuana hasn't reformed a single smoker, just made criminals of the highest percentage of Americas population than any other country in History, including the Nazis and the Soviets! It has also inspired the Cartels to invent crack cocaine, the most destructive drug in history. You'll never see a couple of stoners machine-gunning rival drug-dealers!
2008-01-01 11:04:52 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
sorry, i didn't understand you. but i have an answer. prohibition fails to meet its goals because mostly, people who sets that prohibition are the ones breaking it. it fails also because some are hardly monitored. but i guess, most prohibitions meets its goals.
2008-01-01 05:23:44 · answer #3 · answered by pao d historian 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
people drank anyway. It increased crime.
2008-01-01 02:44:34 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
my multiple arrests
2008-01-01 02:37:28 · answer #5 · answered by dude 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
bootlegging?
2008-01-01 02:37:05 · answer #6 · answered by ? 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the way l see it...
any law that leads directly to the rise of a black market and the associated violence is bad law
this being a fine example of legislation causing more and dangerous problems for citizens than ever it has solved.
2008-01-01 04:14:12 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
bad mojo ... when the government uses the constitution to takes away Americans rights it is a lose/lose situation. Keep your eyes on G. Bush.
2008-01-01 04:30:10 · answer #8 · answered by gervoi 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the consumption of alchohol actually increased in the US instead of stopping.
2008-01-01 03:41:20 · answer #9 · answered by rohak1212 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
people tend to resist change and this was their form of recreation. they didn't like that it was taken away from them and turned to bootlegging and moving around the law.
2008-01-01 03:01:28 · answer #10 · answered by littleragu21 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋