The correct answer to this open question is the following.
Although there are no options attached, we can answer the following.
Prohibition was either a noble experiment or a misguided effort to legislate morality in any case it failed, after almost 14 years, because American society wanted access to alcohol and the law was abolished.
Prohibition generated more problems than the solutions that were originally planned.
The lesson was a tough one to learn. The federal government was so naive in thinking that Prohibition was the ideal solution. Probably, it was the easy way for it to accept the demands of the Christian society of the time.
Nevertheless, Prohibition fostered the mafia in America. Licor started to be sold in illegal ways, in illegal places, and this created an underground industry that produced millions of dollars behind legality.
