Prohibition in the 20th Century

Prohibition is the banning of drinking, manufacturing, transportation, import, export, and sale of achohol. It was usually religious groups that pushed for prohibition, but there were also many womens groups that strongly agreed with prohibition. Prohibition was a big issue in the late 1800's and early to mid 1900's. In the United States the prohibition movement first started in the 1840's when different religious grounp started to push for prohibition, then the womens rights activists jumped on the band waggon and also pushed for prohibition.
In Canada it was the Government that was pushing for prohibition. In 1898 there was a nation wide vote on prohibition and every country agreed with prohibition except for Quebec, which was %81 against it. The Canadian government decided not to inforce prohibition, but they left it up to each individual provience to decide for them selves. All proviences decided that it was a good idea and did inforce it. About 40 years later every provience realised that the law was uninforceable and they decided to drop the law.

I think that prohibition was a pointless idea because somany people were already liked drinking and were used to drinking regularly. To force millions of people to just stop drinking because the government tells them to, is just pointless.