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Originally Posted by macker
Prohibition won't work. We learned that from booze. Use Cleveland as an example......In 1919, a year before prohibition went into effect, Cleveland had 1,200 legal bars. By 1923 the city had an estimated 3,000 illegal speakeasies along with 10,000 stills. An estimated 30,000 city residents sold liquor during prohibition and at least 100,000 more made home brew and bathtub gin for themselves and friends. Prohibition not only fostered widespread contempt for law enforcement, it did something far worse by creating a market unmet by legitimate means. Organized and disorganzied crime filled the vacuum created by the closure of the legal alcohol business. Drinking during prohibition actually increased so the law did the opposite of what it was inteneded to do.
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It didn't work in Springfield, either.