he men in the back, firing squad style. Finally after a decade of prohibition Alcohol was finally made legal again by the Twenty first Amendment on December 1933. In 1924, $40 million was taken in from smuggled alcohol. The government saw all the people making so much money off the illegal sale of alcohol and decided they want a piece of that action also. They figured that they could tax all the sales and with all that money it would improve the economy and the society. Sales of "bath tub gin" and "moonshine" went down. Speakeasies and gangs all died down. In a whole, I think the whole prohibition idea was a flop. All it did was raise the use of alcohol, produced crime, and killed a lot of people. But, on the other hand it made a lot, of I’m not going to say deserving people, but a lot of very poor people a lot of money. ...
