How was prohibition repealed?

Answer 1

Responsibility for enforcing Prohibition fell to the Bureau of Prohibition at the Federal level, and to normal state and local agencies (e.g. state and local police forces). The FBI was frequently involved, as were various other Treasury and Justice Department agencies.

Note that the Bureau of Prohibition was in fact several different units over its lifespan, and used several slightly different names. It started out as merely a subunit of the IRS, transitioned to a full agency under the Dept of the Treasury, then ended up as part of the Justice Department and then a subunit of the FBI, before it lost its purpose in 1933 with the repeal of Prohibition.

The organization now lives on as the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (commonly known at the ATF), and independent agency within the Department of Justice.

Answer 2

Prohibiton worked like this:

People would drink too much beer or alcohol and then do stupid things, The President or Government didn't like this so he made a law; anyone who drinks liquor will be punished

Answer 3

Prohibition came into being as a result of the passage of the 18th Amendment. The actual law spelling out the legal details of Prohibition is the National Prohibition Act of 1919 (often known as the Volstead Act). Since it was a federal law, all federal law enforcement agencies were obliged to enforce it.

However, enforcement was spotty, to say the least.

Answer 4

Prohibition laws were difficult to enforce because the American public was quite used to the consumption of Alcoholic Beverages. With that in mind, prohibition attempted to change a long lived trait in the USA and this habit and desire to consume alcoholic beverages was a world wide habit. Therefore, genuine alcohol was legally produced and smuggled into the US from nearby nations such as Canada. Also, prohibition prohibited the production and distribution of these beverages, it did not prohibit the consumption of these drinks.

Illegal production and distribution of alcoholic beverages found a ready made market of Americans who had no problem with "drinking". As an illegal beverage, the so-called Underworld, made huge profits by either producing or smuggling alcohol into the USA. For example "bathtub gin" could be made in the USA and sold to night clubs known as speak easy's.

The huge profits made by so-called "gangsters" were used to bribe politicians and law officers to look the other way when it came to enforcing prohibition.

Answer 5

The 21st amendment was passed, which repealed the 18th amendment.

Answer 6

Because there was money to be made making and selling alcohol. People wanted it, so other people made and sold it. If it was not profitable, it would not have been an issue.