prohibition is the ban of production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages.
The prohibition in america during the 1920's was widely ignored by Americans for many obvious reasons like wanting to participate in drinking or wanting to make profit off of selling alcohol. The demand for drinking led to the use of speakeasy's which are secret bars or clubs behind or built into normal and legal businesses allowing for people to participate in drinking without getting caught. Many of these speakeasy's were not taken down by police as the police also wanted to participate in the drinking or were bribed. So if this wide use of speakeasy's were rarely taken down and the prohibition was ineffectively enforced why did the governments continue to support the prohibition?
The prohibition of alcohol seemed like it was not very well thought out. The government must not have considered how willing police officers would be to overlook the use of illegal substances. People have and always will do illegal things, it's why we have laws in the first place, so I can't really think of why they would outlaw alcohol. I'm sure it discouraged some from drinking, but it only made mobsters more powerful and brought more crime to the streets of America.
ReplyDeleteIf there weren't laws on prohibition during that period of history, how would things have changed? Certainly there wouldn't be speakeasies and people would've continued to drink alcoholic items, but would that have been all?
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