Why Prohibition Failed

IBTimes 2019-01-15

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On Jan. 16, 1919, Congress ratified the 18th Amendment which banned the manufacture, sale or transportation of 'intoxicating liquors' in the United States. But the policy of prohibition would last from 1920-1933. Why did it fail?

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