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Prohibition: The Failed Experiment Prohibition came about from the push to abolish the use of alcoholic beverages through an amendment to the Constitution, which became a major crusade in the United States during the second decade of the twentieth century. "By the 1820s people in the United States were drinking, on the average, seven gallons of pure alcohol per person each year, and many religious and political leaders were beginning to see drunkenness as a …

…did not get rid of political, economic and social corruption in the United States, but added to the problems it was introduced to solve. The only people that Prohibition benefited were the bootleggers, the corrupt individuals of government, and crime bosses. During the Prohibition era, the mafias, the government officials, and the law enforcement combined to create a huge, corrupt, merchandising system that still exists today and is the main force behind the narcotics trade .