Do you really think it was wrong to make alcohol legal and end prohibition? Are you aware that prohibition is widely recognized as a dismal failure by reliable, rational analysts on all sides of the political spectrum?
In other words, prohibition succeeded in its stated aims, although it generated other problems along the way. To say it was a "dismal failure" is to deny history, not that many partisans haven't done so. It was a political failure, eventually, which is why it was repealed.
If alcohol was discovered or invented today, and all its negative effects were known, including thousands of deaths every year, do you think it would be legalized?
I was being facetious. One thing’s for sure...we’ve damn well found at least one thing where the “rugged individualists” of the conservative movement WANT Big Government to decide for us.