Why was prohibition repealed?

Answer 1

National Prohibition was a failed social experiment in social engineering.

At first, Americans strongly supported National Prohibition and most expected it to improve health and safety, reduce crime, improve the economy, and raise public morality. They were to be disappointed.

Legitimate tax-paying producers and retailers of alcoholic beverages were forced out of business overnight. To fill unmet consumer demand, illegal bootlegging and speakeasies quickly sprang up. With them came organized crime and violence. They also brought corruption as law enforcers and elected officials were bought off with bribes and payoffs.Public morality declined and respect for law and societal institutions plummeted. Breaking the law, even flaunting it, became fashionable, especially among young people.

Tax revenues from alcohol ended but law enforcement expenditures rose. Courts and jails were over-crowded as formerly legal activities became crimes.

Another consequence of Prohibition was that illegally-produced alcohol was sometimes tainted with toxins from lead, creosote and even embalming fluid. Some consumers suffered paralysis, blindness and painful death. This led many drinkers in the state to switch to opium, cocaine, hair tonic, sterno or "liquid heat," and other dangerous substances that they would have been unlikely to consume in the absence of Prohibition.

The overwhelming serious problems caused by Prohibition led voters to reject it by 74%.

Answer 2

because honest hard working people were getting arrested for drinking and it caused widespread problems
The law was highly unpopular. By stopping the sale of alcohol, it also created a bad market for the economy. Pres. Roosevelt kept true to his promise to help revive the economy when he repealed it on March 22, 1933.

Answer 3

In an unsuccessful effort to prevent people from drinking Alcoholic Beverages.

The social movements at the time portrayed the use of alcohol as contributing to various societal ills, and it was thought (we now see naively) that its use could simply be reduced or eliminated by passing laws that made its sale illegal. Unfortunately, making it illegal did not stop people from desiring to use it, and vast criminal enterprises sprang up to provide it. Many people, where they could, simply ignored the law's intent and drank anyway. After some 12 years, recognizing its obvious failure, the 18th amendment was repealed.

Answer 4

In fact, the government did no such thing. Amendments to the Constitution are made or repealed only by the authority of the states. The government has no appeal or over-ride to the decision made by the states. But the people who proposed the repeal understood that enforcement of prohibition was futile, and much more costly than was worth it.

Answer 5

People came to realize that the social engineering experiment failed to solve any problems but created many very serious ones.

Answer 6

Prohibition was ended by the 21st Amendment to the US Constitution.