Prohibition
- Prohibition - "The Noble Experiment"
- From 1919 to 1933
- Banned alcoholic beverages in U.S.
- What resulted?
- People didn't stop drinking
- Organized crime evolved
- Tax revenues lost
- Overloaded courts and prisons
- Drinkers switched to marijuana, etc.
- Public corruption widespread
- Covert bars (speakeasies) everywhere
- Widespread bootlegging
- Serious disrespect for law
- Claim: Constitution is wrong means of regulating individuals