How do you think America would be different in Proabition would have stood?!
that's a tough one i hope...
Answers: when they tried to ban alcohol in the do you think America would have been for better or worse if the ban would have been upheld until present day?
that's a tough one i hope...
I don't think it would be any different all with the exception of the fact they would need a larger police force as the force & security available now have a really tough time guarding airports, the Mexican border and seaports.
People would still drink, booze would still be smuggled in via Canada and the Caribean islands,much larger mafia gangs as the population continues to grow.
Things don't change a lot they just evolve.
No better, no worse, inconvenient perhaps. Right now drugs are smuggled and are illegal...that may change in the future.
Who can tell what the future holds?
If it was upheld a lot more people would be in jail, a lot more would be alive and a lot more would smoke weed. So hard to tell if would be better or not.
People would be killing each other over booze deals AND drug deals. Looking the mob control during prohibition and the killings that took place. It would be worse today.
However, unlike today where everyone and their dog has a DUI, there would be a lot less DUI's.
Look at what the country became like just for the few years that prohibition was in effect. Gangster wars over black-market alcohol, killings and corruption, etc. Multiply that by however many years it would have been in effect until today.
Just think of how ingrained and part of American culture that would have become had prohibition not been rescinded. The U.S. would have been just like Mexico is today with it's drug lords, cartels and corrupt politicians.
Not that we don't have many of the same problems today that Mexico has, but we just don't have them to the same degree ... except maybe the corrupt politicians!
As the others have mentioned, there would still be drinking, just gang controlled. Also, during prohibition, there was no quality control and people died from badly made homemade alcohol. Legal sales of alcohol have kept prices stable, quality standards, and actually provides revenue to the state. Drinking didn't stop during prohibition, it just went underground.
I suspect if it had not been repealed, organized crime would be a far larger problem than it is today, as would corruption. That would have meant slower economic development. We may well not have become the economic powerhouse we are today....
Just think about the current U.S. "War on Drugs". Now multiply that by a hundred times. We'd practically be living in a police state.