Prohibition
How successful was Prohibition ?
On the 18th of December 1917, congress sent to the states the Eighteenth Amendment, which one
year after ratification on 16th of January 1919, banned the manufacture, sale or transport of
intoxicating liquors. In 1919 the Volstead Act defined as “intoxicating” all beverages containing
more than 0.5 percent alcohol, which then became illegal once the Eighteenth Amendment went
into effect in 1920. Prohibition of Alcohol in America between 1920 and 1933 was undertaken
to reduce crime and corruption, …
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…stock market crash of 1929. Prohibition did not improve productivity or
reduce absenteeism. In contrast, private regulation of employees' drinking improved
productivity, reduced absenteeism, and reduced industrial accidents wherever it was tried
before, during, and after Prohibition. Prohibition did not achieve its goals. Instead, it added to
the problems it was intended to solve and supplanted other ways of addressing problems. The
only beneficiaries of Prohibition were bootleggers, crime bosses, and the forces of big
government.
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