~ Taking short and long term effects into account, can Prohibition be considered a success to the people who originally supported the temperance …show more content…
One of my main arguments will be how new social problems such as increased gang violence, and the black market of alcohol significantly outweigh the benefit of less people drinking alcohol. Another one of my arguments will be about how the government missed out on the opportunity to tax alcohol and lost millions due to the black market. I will also talk about both positive and negative long and short term effects of the movement, but eventually explain how the bad outweighed the good. Finally, I will talk about how Prohibition led to a dangerous new culture surrounding alcohol and the dangers of it being unregulated and