The 18th Amendment :: Alcohol

To drink or no? Ever since the first people stumbled crossways alcohol (and then each other) this has been a question commonly asked. Statistics show that a majority of domestic violence, automobile accidents, and rape, all involve (many times) alcohol. Whether one thinks usance is right or not has been asked by people for people from time to time. This would be the case of the 18th Amendment of 1919.The Act passed by those concerned with the above-mentioned problems, require the vending, transportation of, and consumption of alcohol. The law was intended to be enforced nation-wide. Police raided and trashed many vendors to stop their trade. Sometimes however, the police took their share of the whiskey they were supposed to break, and pay reporters to look the other way. On the whole, prohibition was effective in smaller town/cities, but worked a bit less in the larger cities.It is verbalize that for every market that is destroyed, a new underground market is created. This was e xactly the case with prohibition. Though domestic violence did decrease, much annoyance increased. Bootlegers (people who made/sell their own whiskey) popped up everywhere. Speakeasies, which were underground bars, were frequented by virtually everyone. Seceret drinking was considered a glamorous thing-even in Washington parties. Bootlegging gangs began to increase, thus an increase in highway crime occured. One of the most famous of these gangsters was Al Capone. Capones bootlegging ring earned him approximately 60,000,000 dollars a year. One example of gang related crime was the St. Valentines Day Massacre, in which Caponess gang gunned down and killed seven members of Bugs Morgans gang.