Prohibition: The Ignoble Experiment

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that prohibition would do
nothing but improve America. People who were against prohibition were called
wets and people for it were called drys. Wets mainly consisted of democrats who
refused to stop drinking and who were usually older men or immigrants who drank
all their life. The drys were usually republican Protestants who believed
alcohol was evil and that prohibition was the answer to societies problems.
Well, the drys were wrong because many problems surfaced as a result of
prohibition.
One problem was the increase of alcohol consumption. Alcohol
consumption did go down at the beginning of prohibition, but subsequently went
back up. Alcohol became more dangerous to consume and crime burgeoned and
became ³organized". The courts and prison systems became over crowded resulting
in a full blown war on alcohol which costed the government millions of dollars.
Political officials began to want a piece of the action and became corrupt.
The prohibition of ...

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