Prohibition-Per+3+2012




 * During Prohibition, the manufacture, transportation, import, export, and sale of alcoholic beverages were restricted or illegal. Prohibition was supposed to lower crime and corruption, reduce social problems, lower taxes needed to support prisons and poorhouses, and improve health and hygiene in America. Instead, Alcohol became more dangerous to consume; organized crime blossomed; courts and prisons systems became overloaded; and endemic corruption of police and public officials occurred.**

Prohibition presented opportunities for organized crime, manufacturing, and distributing of alcoholic drinks. Every passing year the number of repeal organizations and demand for repeal got higher. In 1932 the democratic Party's promise to repeal prohibition. 46 states favored the appeal. In 1933 the states ratified the 21st. In 1966 all states had fully repealed their state level prohibition laws.