On: The United States’ Unamendable Constitution

[TeeMassive]

Crime virtually disappeared after Prohibition was passed until the apparition of organized crime.

At the time (and still to this day) alcohol and drugs made and destroyed empires. The Dutch Empire was based on Gin. The British Empire on Opium and Rhum. Russia on Vodka. France had Bourbon.

[PaulDavisThe1st → TeeMassive]

> Crime virtually disappeared after Prohibition was passed until the apparition of organized crime.

Is that a bit like "the sun stopped coming up, until the sun came up the next day" ?

[TeeMassive → PaulDavisThe1st]

Or that they saw the immediate effect but the consequences after that. Hindsight is 20/20.

[pjc50 → TeeMassive]

> Crime virtually disappeared after Prohibition was passed until the apparition of organized crime

I have never seen this claim made before and would like some evidence for it.

[TeeMassive → pjc50]

https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/6/5/18518005/prohibit...

[parkingrift → TeeMassive]

You could also rewrite this sentence to say that prohibition created organized crime.

[naasking → TeeMassive]

> Crime virtually disappeared after Prohibition was passed until the apparition of organized crime.

I think you mean, that nearly everyone became a criminal overnight when Prohibition was passed, because they didn't just stop drinking.