Amendment 18

Section 1. After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited.
Section 2. The Congress and the several States shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

Section 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress.

This amendment banned the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol. They did this because of how people act when they were intoxicated. But this led to high crime, such as bootlegging and the mafia. The people wanted their liquors and were willing to do anything to get them.

Another point to be made is the fact that this amendment does not prohibit the consumption of alcohol. I guess they did that so that people who might need it for religion or other non recreational purposes could still use it. They just made it really hard to get.



Even doctors new that people wanted to drink and would freely hand out prescriptions for whiskey.



This guys makes the point that the consumption of alcohol is okay, but it was just so ridiculously hard to get that no one would drink it.