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America banned alcohol and accidentally invented organized crime as a growth industry.
means A law or period in which something — most famously alcohol — is officially banned by government decree.
from From Latin prohibere, 'to hold back, keep away' — pro ('forth, away') plus habere ('to hold'). The word entered English in the 1300s-1400s for any forbidding act, legal or moral, long before it narrowed in American usage to mean one specific doomed experiment with banning booze (1920-1933), a chapter so infamous it hijacked the word's capital letter.
- duration
- 1920 to 1933, thirteen dry years
- loophole
- doctors could prescribe whiskey legally
- side effect
- built modern gangster economy, Capone included
- repeal
- 21st Amendment, only one undoing another