What are the pros and cons of prohibition?

Answer 1

CONS Being able to have alcohol is a part of personal freedom. What we do in our private time should not be regulated by the government if we are the "land of the free." We should be able to do what we want with our bodies as long as it is not harming others. If people want to drink then they are deciding for themselves if they want to and will suffer the consequences of drinking themselves. Alcohol use is a victimless crime and as such the government has no right to prohibit it. It cost the country lots of money to get rid of all the alcohol. They are spending money that isn't necessary to get rid of something that should be legal in the first place. When we spend more money from our government doing this, it increases the price of other things people want to buy. Taking away alcohol from people who enjoy it then causes more crimes. People are becoming angry want to rebel from getting something taken away from them. Nobody is impressed with the increases in prices of things either. Some of the reasons that we have for prohibition are not right. Right when we start to have many immigrants coming into our country and different races is when we started to ban alcohol. German-Americans were important in the brewing and distilling the alcohol.

Answer 2

The pros of prohibition were very limited cases of alcohol related domestic violence, limited alcohol poisoning, and limited rapes due to alcohol. The cons of prohibition were on import and export of liquor to other countries, lack of alcohol related taxes to the economy, and loss of income for those working in the alcohol industry.