Was prohibition an effective government policy during the 1920's and 30's?

Question

Did it?
I'm talking about the U.S government and the great depression.

What are the PROS of having to ban alcohol???

Answer 1

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was not at all

Answer 2

The only pros i can think of was for the gans that ran the moonshine, and speak easies.

Answer 3

My grand father was a bootlegger, a fishermen by trade, and brought it overland from Canada. People were not about to stop drinking so it failed (No support.).

For all the good habits that we got from Euro-civ, drinking alcohol (Scythian styal(See Herodotus)not watered down like in the biblical times.) almost negates them all. Statistically most of the US prison population has some alcohol related offense. I costs us a fortune.

Some Americans (Pot smokers-all of them.) seem to think that if every (If not every than you give credence to the states right to regulate and thus contradict your entire premise.) drug were legalized. And that somehow this will eliminate crime. Of course if one looks at the consequences of this historically (It made China a nation of ope an eaters.) one sees that it is the emotions of a person who is adicted to a given substance talking and not the produce of a fertile and cogent mind. It would be disastrous, and every one in their right mind know this.
I am glad I am a fundamentalist seeing as we seem to be the only sane group left in the nation.

Answer 4

The pros were imaginary. Fundamentalist Christians fervently believed that men would stop drinking and work more. Feminists equally fervently believed that men would stop beating their wives and go disappearing on benders. Medical people hoped that all the diseases related to alcoholism would disappear. They were all wrong. People were so desperate to drink that they would drink even wood alcohol. Prohibition gave a fortune to gangsters and spawned a huge criminal sub culture.
Our current prohibition of pot and other drugs is equally futile but the god damned Fundies are too stupid to realize it.

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Former nurse

Answer 5

Al Capone and other mobsters, crooked politicians , rum-runners etc. all thought so as they made millions from it.
Temperance organisations thought so too as they bathed in the glory of having succeeded in exorcising the devil alcohol.
Or so they thought. It was a ludicrous policy which gave a great boost to the institutionalising of organised crime in American society which has lasted to this day.

Answer 6

no it was not very good. It encouraged crime. The good thing about it is probably when they did bring it back they had a better way of conroling alcohol usage and consuption.