How did the Prohibition cause problems??????
466517
Well people still wanted to drink, so they had to do so illegally which meant sometime purchasing alcohol of dubious origins and purity - so people could get arrested for doing something illegal or could get sick.\n\nIt also help organized crime get a strong grip on the country as they controlled the alcohol and many politicians.\n\nPeople making alcohol at home sometimes had fires caused the distilling liquer in closets, basements etc.\n\nThe alcohol industry was shut down thus causing the loss of jobs.
714833
The problem is systemic and it really doesn't matter which party is in charge.  Suppose you had a Republican alcoholic and a Demorat alcoholic.  Regardless of their political philosophy, each cannot control his intake of alcohol.  Analalgously, our fiscal system is like a liquor store; politicians of whichever party cannot control themselves when they get to spend other people's money.
805742
The 21st Amendment repealed the 18th Amendment, the latter of which banned alcohol. So the 21st Amendment permitted alcohol to be manufactured, distributed, and consumed under government regulations.
243940
Socially: Everyone ignored the ban on alcohol and partied a lot.  Economically: The stock market crashed and the economy plunged into a depression.  Politically: People blamed Hoover for the lack of jobs and money and elected FDR.
651832
It has been the discrimination against the descendants of immigrants what caused the troubles.\n\nRacism leads to marginalization, the creation of ghettos, unemployment and low levels of education between immigrants and their children.\n\nThis always has negative effects, violence included.\n\nSegregation+racism= social troubles
905474
Funny, but when you started typing you actually almost made sense. By your fourth drink, however, the end of your question just became a bunch of stuttering confusion.  I guess it's true - alcohol just clouds the mind...such a shame to waste what was once a beautiful thing. Sorry about your luck!
1154517
The problems of the coca cola company are well documented.  There is a lot of information about it here:\nhttp://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=lang_en&q=health+danger+of+coca+cola&btnG=Search\nhttp://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=lang_en&q=health+danger+of+coca+cola&btnG=Search\n\nPlease do your research and decide for yourself.
811243
A very good question. I agree. From what I've read, alcohol is a lot worse that marijuana, both physically and mentally. Alcohol is both a poison and instant brain killer. Now the question of legal vs. illegal - I think that alcohol plays a role so pivotal in America's today's economy that banning it would create so much chaos and objection. So many powerful businesses and individuals will be affected that they will lobby ferociously to stop any attempt to even make alcohol less accessible. It is moral hypocricy, I agree.
120388
The 18th amendment proclaiming prohibition was repealed by the 21st. No other amendement has been repealed.
478134
Poison will cause ill effects whomever drinks it. There\nonce was a (so-called) preacher (Jim Jones) who took all his congregation to an island, fed them poison, and they all died. The people were innocent, but the preacher was a devil in disguise, and fooled the people into following him. It\nwas a very sad case.
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It is an issue in the past.  It was involved in the circumstances and political climate of its day, and there does not appear to be any sabotage intended.  It simply happened, in the open, up front.  There was nothing underhanded in that it was not ratified.
345987
When alcohol was outlawed it gave rise to the Mafia, easy money for people willing to break the law.  The outlawing of pot, cocaine, and LSD has led to the rise of the Cartels, another criminal enterprise.\n\nLegalising all of these drugs would help deter the outrageous profits such a cartel can make in the U.S. market.  Further, government taxation of the sales of such drugs would add money to the treasury.  None of the three mentioned in the question seems to be as hard on the human body and brain as alcohol.  I say legalise.
691175
Increased organized crime, especially in the cities.  You can argue that higher percentage of people were breaking the law because many people used even their own bathtubs to make alcohol in their home.  Speakeasies is the term used for places that were making it illegally.
278622
By making drugs illegal, the government makes them more expensive and more difficult to obtain. The newspaper Chicago Sun Times had done a series of articles years ago that suggested that Prohibition was not as ineffective as is normally accepted. In fact, by making alcohol illegal the government was not able to stop the consumption or alcohol completely, but was definitely able to dramatically lower the per capita consumption of alcohol. This was a direct result of alcohol being more expensive and more difficult to obtain.\n\nOne need only look at the practices of modern sales and advertising for legal but unhealthy items to see what the legalization of drugs would do to harm the US. Advertising and marketing of items like alcohol, fast food, over the counter stimulants, pornography, along with their ease of acquiring, leads to the overconsumption of these items. This overconsumption leads to horrendous national problems such as a generally unhealthy lifestyle, shortened life spans, loss of productivity, increases in health care costs, and indirectly to the further erosion of the family, increases in the rate of bankruptcy, etc.\n\nAs the magazine THE ULTIMATE UNKNOWN has stated, the legalization of recreational drugs would lead to their legitimization, and that would lead to their general acceptance and overindulgence by everyone.
418570
Fantastic idea I'm sure.\nNow tell me how you are going to have this prohibition enforced? If you could actually find a way to do that, you would have managed to create the most perfect dictatorship I could possibly imagine.
886558
There was a rise in moral "cleansing" (think Radical Right) because of the Roaring 20s.  People felt that it was their puritanical duty to prevent sin during this newly (but not quite revolutional) taboo era.\n\nAlso, the government wasn't taxing alcohol like the last guy said and it was brought back into circulation once they figured out how to do so.
273431
Before I start, let me mention that I have not smoked marijuana in many years, but have certainly had my share of alcohol.\n\nMarijuana prohibition is idiotic, born out of ideas, fear, and propaganda from a time long ago.  It is safer than alcohol by far, and is only frowned upon because of the legality and social stigma placed upon it.  No one has ever died from marijuana poisoning, or pot withdrawal, yet both of these things happen with alcohol on a daily basis throughout the country and the world.  Riots are not started by folks who are stoned, but violence and drunkenness go hand and hand.\n\nIf the drug were made legal, it could be taxed and regulated just like tobacco or booze.  Legalization would free up space and court resources for real criminals, saving the taxpayers money and getting more dangerous folks off the street.  It's a crime that this drug is treated like a dangerous, physically addictive drug, and it shouldn't be a crime to do it.