prohibition, n.All

Prohibition was ineffective --- the US annual crime rate escalated as much as 25% upon the enforcement of Prohibition in 1920.

Prohibition strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.

Prohibition is wrongheaded, for there is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.

During prohibition, merchants would sell "bricks" of grape concentrate with a label that warned consumers not to mix the concentrate with yeast, water, and sugar and age the mixture for seven days, because "an illegal alcoholic beverage will result".

Prohibition is a the targeting of the other's excessive and risky enjoyment, embodied in the act of 'irresponsibly' lighting a cigarette and inhaling deeply with an unabashed pleasure.

Prohibition is like making water run uphill... it's against nature.

Prohibition is, more often than not, counterproductive. Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit.

Scotch whisky was the only whisky allowed into the US during prohibition, as it was commonly prescribed as a medicine

Prohibition makes the drug market more lucrative.

Prohibition is not just a binary relationship with the permitted, but formed as what is considered to be an average on the one hand, and, on the other, a bandwidth of the acceptable that must not be exceeded.

Prohibition is an attempted cure that makes matters worse for both the addict and the rest of us.

Iceland went through a prohibition beginning in 1915 and ending in 1989 after a referendum vote by the population.

the U.S. government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition in the 20s and 30s, killing over 10,000 people.