"Actually, Prohibition Was a Success"

Best article ever! It completely saved my paper. Most people think that Prohibition was a failure because it made organized crime more prominent and created a black market for alcohol. But as the article said, organized crime existed before, during, and after the years of Prohibition, and it did not make it increase, just made it more in the public's eye. Prohibition actually did what it set out to do, reducing alcohol consumption by 30 to 50 percent, which I think is incredible, and that is something I never knew. Honestly, I always thought that the most sure way of increasing the use of a certain substance was to make that substance illegal. It just feels like telling someone they can't do something only makes them want to do it more, and it pretty much guarantees that they will do it. But there are actually a lot of law-abiding individuals who would never risk the potential punishment. I'm one of those people, so I am not sure why I am so surprised that there were that many. I guess it has to do with what's published. Nobody cares about the people who through life abiding by all the rules and being perfect citizens all the time; people want to hear about those who break the law, so I that's probably why the portrayal of the years of Prohibition is different than the actual numbers would suggest. All very fascinating.