[tdadams]

Moore argued that the criminalization of alcohol was effective in reducing alcohol-related problems.

Here is one of your prime examples of "it's a matter of definitions".

On the basis that alcohol consumption and bar brawls may have gone down... Prohibition was a success. But only if you overlook Al Capone's gangland masacres, corruption, death and sickness from bathtub gin, and bribery.

[vin-one]

absolutely Prohibition was a success,
look what it got us the Kennedy's,organized crime,
police corruption, disease, sickness and death from bad booze
Politicians on the take, a gov't sink hole for our tax dollars

sounds just like our current prohibition, war on drugs.

kinda makes you go, hmmmmmmmmm!!!!!!!!