[CheyennePress]

Prohibition actually cut down on the consumption of alcohol. Problem is that it just created whole criminal enterprises for some dodgy, risk-taking entrepreneurs.

[tickmeister]

Plus prohibition made the Kennedy family rich. They didn't get caught and Capone did. The rest is history.

[supercat]

Prohibition actually cut down on the consumption of alcohol.

It certainly cut down the number of people who were using it harmlessly. But freedom-loving people shouldn't consider that a useful objective. There were still plenty of problems caused by alcohol consumption during prohibition; a shift from predictably-formulated drinks like beer to more variably-formulated variants of gin may have made these worse.

[mugs99]

Prohibition actually cut down on the consumption of alcohol

Only until the smugglers and bootleggers made it available again!
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[TheLion]

There were about 100,000 speakeasys in NYC, where you could get a drink during prohibition....they were really shutting it down!