Maybe you don't understand the definition of outlaw (verb, transitive)":
To make illegal.
Maybe you don't understand the definition of outlaw (verb, transitive)":
To make illegal.
Maybe you don't understand that in order to make a 'sinful' behavior 'illegal' nationwide the States felt it necessary to pass an Amendment back in 1919.
The Eighteenth Amendment only prohibited "manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors . . . for beverage purposes."
An individual could still make beer & wine for personal use. Alcohol could be made for medicinal uses, etc.
The individuals rights were not "outlawed".
Although the 18th was the "supreme law of the land," it still required an Act of Congress to make it enforceable.
Enter the super-dry, ultra-religious congressman from Minnesota, Andrew J. Volstead. Many who supported the Eighteenth Amendment took the term "intoxicating liquors" to mean liquor: whiskey, rum, and other distilled spirits. Most liquors were at least 40% alcohol ("eighty proof"); some, particularly of the "greased lightning" variety, were as much as 90% alcohol.
Surely beer, with its three to seven percent alcohol content, and wine, with its less-than-fifteen percent alcohol content, would be permitted—with certain restrictions and regulations, of course.
Much to people's surprise, Volstead, backed by the triumphant evangelicals, defined "intoxicating liquors" as any beverage containing more than one-half of one percent alcohol.
Using the momentum of the anti-German, anti-beer bias, Volstead was able to pass his National Prohibition Act over President Wilson's veto. Understandably, many supporters of the Eighteenth Amendment felt betrayed.
A religious belief had become the law of the land.
In exchange for giving up one of their basic freedoms, the people of the United States were promised great things by the reformers. The great things never came. And, of course, the 'Volstead Act' was an unconstitutional exercise of Congressional power, in the opinion of many rational men.
Thus, its repeal, when sanity again ruled.