The lessons of Prohibition remain important today. Applying not just only the debate over the war over drugs but the efforts to reduce access to alcohol and tobacco such issues on trading and gambling. The consumption of alcohol decreased at the beginning of Prohibition, which increased at the end. It removed a good amount of tax revenue and increased government spending incredibly. Leading a huge amount of drinkers to switch to marijuana, patent medicines, and other dangerous substances that many would have been unlikely to encounter in the Prohibition.
The freedom to drink made many citizens criminals. Laws took part of the illegal acts of alcohol, leading to political corruption. Prohibition ended up failing according to the 18th Amendment which was almost impossible to enforce. When enabling to enforce the Amendment, many Americans loose all their trust to the public law. Corruption spread to every government and law responsibilities. Smugglers were permitted to run in as much liquor as they can manage, liquor shipments which usually had been forced to pay them off at a high price or sold many goods to other smugglers.
Al Capone's arrival to Chicago in 1920, inheriting the gang of Torrio. Prohibition became enforced also ratified in 1919. Capone was a brilliant criminal man which thought about illegal production and sale of alcohol. He devised alcohol which been involved with salespeople and speakeasies having bodyguards to protect these investments. Capone controlled not only the sales of alcohol in Chicago, but also its supply chain, reaching to smuggling sources in Canada and Florida. Capone had control of the law enforcement and government officials because he could pay them off with the money
The freedom to drink made many citizens criminals. Laws took part of the illegal acts of alcohol, leading to political corruption. Prohibition ended up failing according to the 18th Amendment which was almost impossible to enforce. When enabling to enforce the Amendment, many Americans loose all their trust to the public law. Corruption spread to every government and law responsibilities. Smugglers were permitted to run in as much liquor as they can manage, liquor shipments which usually had been forced to pay them off at a high price or sold many goods to other smugglers.
Al Capone's arrival to Chicago in 1920, inheriting the gang of Torrio. Prohibition became enforced also ratified in 1919. Capone was a brilliant criminal man which thought about illegal production and sale of alcohol. He devised alcohol which been involved with salespeople and speakeasies having bodyguards to protect these investments. Capone controlled not only the sales of alcohol in Chicago, but also its supply chain, reaching to smuggling sources in Canada and Florida. Capone had control of the law enforcement and government officials because he could pay them off with the money