Extending prohibition to mean anything prohibited just proves that if you change the meaning of words you can make white equal black. It also proves you are out of arguements and are playing semantic games.
How about extending it to the laws of physics. Things are prohibited from falling upward. Viola prohibition works.
Prohibition of recreational drugs has never worked 100%. The only fair question is if the total cost of prohibition exceeds the total net cost of the drug with normal regulation. For alcohol the answer was clearly yes.
And you think I'm out of arguments? LOL Different types of prohibition have differing rates of success. I used an example to show a highly effective one. One that actually exists and that actually works in regard to human activity. Don't like it? Tough.
Prohibition of recreational drugs has never worked 100%.
Really??? You don't say! Has the prohibition against rape, robbery, or murder ever worked 100%???
How's that prohibition against illegal immigration working on the southern border? Not too well, is it? We can't be expected to control human activity, right? I mean if someone wants to smoke a doobie, they are going to get their hands on one, right? And if someone is desperate to get into the good 'ol USA, they are going to, right? So let's end the WOD and the War on Illegal Immigration and save wads of money, right?
The only question? You're saying Prohibition was repealed only because of cost?