Prohibition was ratified on this day in 1919, but it didn’t last forever—and it didn’t stop people from drinking. Check out this clip from America in Color: Organized Crime. You can catch the full episode tonight at 7PM during an all-day America in Color marathon. We’ll drink to that! 🍻 http://bit.ly/35DM5Jn | Smithsonian Channel

The harmful effects of Prohibition in the United States included a significant rise in organized crime, widespread corruption among law enforcement, a surge in illegal alcohol and substances production and distribution (bootlegging), loss of tax revenue, increased social disregard for the law, and a general decline in public morality, all stemming from the creation of a black market for alcohol or substances when its sale was made illegal; despite the initial aim to reduce alcohol or drug consum