Prohibition

Prohibition, as defined in Webster’s Dictionary, is the legal ban on the sale and manufacture of intoxicating drink. In the United States, it became a movement designed to reduce drinking and its associated ills by eliminating the businesses that manufactured, distributed, and sold alcoholic beverages [7]. Prohibition did not achieve its aim. Instead, it added to the problems it was intended to solve, as seen through the periods in history when such bans have been in force, as well as, the political and social movements advocating it.
Prohibition activities have occurred when significant numbers of people believed that the consumption of alcohol presented a serious threat to the integrity of their institutions, especially the institution of family. Drunkenness has been considered an evil thing in many of the world’s major religions. Most of the Middle East forbids even the moderate use of the fermented drink. Here in the West, however, efforts to ban the consumption ...