| >> America (and a few other places) actually did have a War On Booze, they just gave up because it's too socially normalised > They might've given up because alcohol prohibition increased the crime and alcohol poisoning rates; because it was killing more people than it was saving. > They might've given up because the state prohibition laws had exceptions for religious and medical purposes and so were explicitly unequal ("de jure discriminatory") They might've repealed the Amendment authorizing alcohol prohibition when they realized they were unintentionally ensuring tax-free funding for organized crime. The whole Gangsters vs G-men thing was a direct product of prohibition. Where US Marshalls (Justice branch) and Secret Service (Executive branch) had been more or less sufficient, we then needed another new 'bureau' to handle interstate organized crime headed up by a German guy; amidst Irish Rabbis (during prohibition) Where we had had men drinking in saloons and not going home to their families, we then had men and women drinking in illegal literally underground speakeasies (on like every other corner of New York) breathing leaded gasoline (which, apparently, noone ever went to jail for) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition_(miniseries) episodes: "A Nation of Drunkards", "A Nation of Scofflaws", "A Nation of Hypocrites" |
Welcome to the modern Drug War: Prohibition 2.0