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How successful was Prohibition in America, in terms of ending the abuse of alcohol?

Second question. If you don't think Prohibition was successful in getting Americans to drop drinking alcohol, do you believe the US government and/or the states can get people to stop being gay, by reversing the current direction of the courts & again making sodomy illegal?

Public Comments

1. it wasnt and no
2. Successful in creating a black market for crime syndicates to flourish. Unsuccessful as it was repealed soon thereafter. Okay, sure, make sodomy illegal. How can you enforce such a law? You can't break into people's houses. Besides, heterosexuals also engage in sodomy.
3. prohibition helped create the Mafia, and other organized crime groups. The consumption of alcohol is too ingrained in our species to outlaw it. homosexuality is a totally separate issue. I couldn't care less who you decide to diddle, I just don't want to hear about it
4. Alcohol consumption increased during prohibition.
5. Prohibition of alcohol was not successful, obviously as it was repealed. No, making sodomy illegal would not discourage homosexuality. Lesbians don't usually engage in sodomy, so it would only affect gay men and straight couples. How the government would (or used to) enforce such a law is beyond me. What two consenting adults do together is of no concern to anyone else.
6. Prohibition was not successful. What court is trying to make sodomy illegal?
7. Prohibition was only successful in one way. It made a lot of unscrupulous people in the USA very rich, including JFK's father.
8. People cling onto religion in the same way they cling onto alcohol. When I first started teaching, the professor drove us to a particularly impoverished part of town. He pointed out an interesting phenomena. The number of liquor stores and small churches showed a very strong positive correlation. Regarding the second part of your question, the so-called religious people who bash gays should not that Christ never mentioned homosexuality, but was profoundly concerned with the plight of the poor. Now, people who hate gays will quickly point out that not talking about something is not equivalent to approving of it, but harping on this whole gay issue effectively takes the focus off of things that matter, like immoral wars, the destruction of the middle and poor class by greedy neocons that make a mockery of the word conservative. In a a book I am reading by Ted Rall, he makes a very good point. It is the democrats that are the conservatives now, because we are trying to hold on to many of the things it took so long for this country to achieve, like medicare, social security, and a generally progressive perspective
9. It was extremely poor. Alcohol abuse did not decrease, and neither did the demand. The alcohol market was in control of mass underground criminal gangs. Prohibition caused violence, shootings, organised crime and mafia activity, this is why it only lasted thirteen years. And in answer to your second question, no. Homosexuality will probably continue to be more and more accepted, there'd more people against the illegality than of being gay than for it.
10. the legalization of alchohol did not stop the deaths of people who were hit by autos. neither will the legalization of home grow pot. in fact pot smokers have killed just as many people as drunk drivers. nevertheless the prophibition in the commandments of God do exist