The prohibition didn't work because the government started to crash because they depended to much on the taxes they got from alcohol. If you research it you would find that crime rate did indeed go down during prohibition. It made the substance harder to get, and in return many quit. All you who are against prohibition must not know an alcoholic and seen what it does to people. It destroys them and everyone around them. If it is something that can destroy one persons life, then why make it ok. During my studies I have found that the guidlines for making a drug illigal is that it much "put the public saftey at risk". Does alcohol not do that? the answer is that it does, the the government needs the money, there for dont care. If the gov. could tax cocaine and marijuana, im sure they would make that legal too. Dont get me wrong, I love america and my husband is a marine fighting for this country, I just don't like alcohol!