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follow to live your best life. Over time, 13 states started the revolution and banned the manufacture of alcoholic beverages. Most people were in favor on prohibition during the first few months, they were under the impression that only hard liquor would be banned like whisky, gin, and vodka. Most were not in favor of the ban against beer and wine. These feelings divided the states into two divisions, The Drys and The Wets. The Drys supported the laws against the recreational use of alcohol, and The Wets were against the law and believed you should be able to drink. Prohibition was the reason for crime levels to rise. People now saw drinking as a crime, which made people want to do it even more. Underground bars, otherwise known as a speakeasy, …show more content…

This was because since they were illegal, it gave people a thrill to break the law and drink with their friends. These speakeasies, becoming so popular gave bootleggers the chance to make thousands of dollars off of prohibition. This brought a huge uprise to organized crime and gang violence. In the end, the fight for prohibition was never going to make it. People knew that they could handle the decision of whether to drink or not. ¨The American public simply did not consider moderate drinking a sinful activity and refused to have its morality policed by the government. ¨ (Gale Group) This shows how the people viewed the fight against prohibition, they believed that alcohol should be a choice to be used, also that any actions that follow because of it, you are allowed to be prosecuted …show more content…

People saw only what alcohol can do negatively to people back in the 1920s-1930s which caused people to view the drink negatively, and that's also what happened with Marijuana. People see marijuana negatively only because teenagers tend to abuse it for a fun Friday night or for the feeling. Marijuana has real positive results when use medically. The fight against prohibition just proved that we cannot limit what people can and cannot do to be under the influence when positive effects are involved. When people drink, it doesn't have to be because of alcoholism, and when people smoke, it doesn't have to be just to ¨get high¨. Marijuana also has many benefits we don't even know about yet, and if it gets legalized widespread across the United States imagine how much we will be able to discover about it and its uses just from human curiosity. Another benefit from the legalization of marijuana would be the money going towards the government, instead of having it be sold illegally like it is now. The tobacco market makes 15.5 million dollars for the government every year. With the legalization of marijuana, if we spread it on a basis like tobacco, could bring in the same, or an even larger revenue to the government. Most of the money used to buy marijuana today, is all done illegally, and if legalized could make a huge difference in crime levels also. According to American Civil Liberties

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In 1919, Congress passed the 18th Amendment which banned the sale and consumption of alcohol in America (Doc B). Prohibitionists overlooked the tenacious American tradition of strong drink and of weak control by the central government. Thus, there was tension between the modernists and the traditionalists. Although the amendment was passed, alcohol was still distributed illegally. Actually, prohibition spawned many crimes, such as illegal sale of alcohol and gang wars.

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The country was trying to control America’s alcohol problems by law. The ban on alcohol worsened America’s alcohol problem, in fact, it did quite the opposite of its intention. All caused by prohibition, America had an increased crime rate, death rate, and to top it off, America was losing slathers of money.

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A problem with prohibition was the jobs it took away, “The act also banned liquor advertising, and the use or sale of anything that might lead to its manufacture,” (Smith 133). Also, vehicles that were once used for the transportation of alcohol were to be seized or destroyed. So, people whose lives once revolved around the profits from alcohol were left with nothing. The rise of bootlegging soon began. In the early times of Prohibition, citizens did whatever they could to get around the laws, and lawmakers underestimated the lengths people would go to obtain alcohol.

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America changed its mind though because depression started and murder rates started to rise. When prohibition got passed, a lot of people to get a taste of beer or whiskey back so bad that they were willing to do whatever it took for them to get it. A good majority of these people were gangsters, dope sellers, bootleggers, and racketeers, as shown in document A. They were all types of drunks.

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For example, many people began to go to speakeasies to get illegal alcohol. Speakeasies were illegal places that secretly sold illegal alcohol during the Prohibition (Speakeasies). This was one of many methods people used for getting illegal alcohol during prohibition (1920s). During the Prohibition there were twice as many speakeasies as there were legal restaurants before the 18th Amendment went into effect (Behr, Edward). Many citizens did not want to compromise their right to choose to drink alcohol.

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