I guess that we can get picky about what the 18th amendment did or did not
do.  Prohibition, as I understand it, really prohibited very little.
 
It was the manufacture and sale of ETHEL alcohol that it was supposed to
prohibit (there are two other types of alcohol).  But personal
consumption, although the target, was not prohibited (except in some
states and territories).  In Alaska, for example, the "Bone Dry" law
patterned after Idaho's prohibition law actually prohibited personal
possession and consumption, but even there, there were loopholes - for
example for medical (for the "diagnosis" for drought, for example for
whites) and religious purposes, experimental and mechanical applications
also were legal.
 
As I understand it, it did exactly what the politicians wanted it to do -
give the appearance of prohibition without actually doing it.
 
Thayne
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