Persuasive Essay On Prohibition

Imagine America today where alcohol is banned. People would think that this would help control order in America but banning alcohol would not be the best idea. Alcohol were those kinds of beverages that was used for centuries but is widely accepted by most people today. Most people would even want to try drinking alcohol in their lifetime. However, alcohol is one of the main social issues in America, being the cause of accidents, health deterioration, and crimes. There are people who are in favor of liquor, but there are others who are against the idea of alcohol. This brings us to the roaring twenties where the eighteenth amendment was in effect. The eighteenth amendment of the constitution, also known as “The Noble Experiment”, was an establishment of prohibiting the production, sale, and transportation of alcohol in the United States. The purpose of this amendment was to reduce the crimes and violence that involved the consumption of alcohol. The purpose was to also improve health and to prevent people from poverty. Thus began the Prohibition era. The amendment was a law that backfired in gaining control within America. Once the prohibition era started, it changed everything. There was organized crimes and corruption in the United States, the economy went bad, saloons were closed, leaving most owners in poverty, and violence had increased since mobsters smuggled and fought each other for the marketing of alcohol. The twenty first amendment which repealed the eighteenth amendment, thus making alcohol legal again. The prohibition era failed to control alcohol consumption because of the increase in organized crimes and that the government spent billions of dollars trying to prevent drinking in the United States .
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...rinking and transporting alcohol in secrecy. Organized crimes did not deteriorate and had only increased more. Even Police and other officials were tempted enough to be involved in corruption. To prevent it from becoming worse, the Twenty-First Amendment was created to repeal the Eighteenth Amendment, ending the prohibition era. People who drink may or may not have reason to drink, but it is their choice whether they want to drink or not. They now have the freedom to drink, but to drink responsibly for alcoholism is still a social issue in the United States. For those who do not drink should not try to convince a drinking-free life to those who were not interested in it. It is best not to pass a law that controls the use of alcohol when most people from all over the world drink more than once in their lifetime. People are free to choose if they want to drink or not.