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Contempt for law enforcement

Dramatic increases in corruption

The dramatic decrease of alcohol consumption

Prohibition not only failed in its promises to eliminate alcohol problems but it actually created additional serious and disturbing social problems throughout society. This led to an increasing disillusionment by millions of Americans. Journalist H. L. Mencken wrote in 1925 that "Five years of prohibition have had, at least, this one benign effect: they have completely disposed of all the favorite arguments of the Prohibitionists. None of the great boons and usufructs that were to follow the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment has come to pass. There is not less drunkenness in the Republic but more. There is not less crime, but more. There is not less insanity, but more. The cost of government is not smaller, but vastly greater. Respect for law has not increased, but diminished."

Later 74% of Americans voted to repeal the disastrous experiment in social engineering known as National Prohibition.

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