So if you read part one you already know what happened.
Making alcohol Iligeal made Alchohol a thing that was valued, so there were gangs bringing alcohol all around the US, some Illegal stills used to make moonshine was used to make alcohol.
Since they were using moonshine to make Alchohol, the government added toxins, making people go sick and die.
Many people imported Alchohol by sea and they made a system called Rum Row just beyond the US maritime limit.
Bootleggers sailed out to take Alchohol from Rum row.
Roy Olmstead became rich from selling Illegal Alchohol.
Corruption was EVERYWHERE it was soo easy for a jailed bootlegger to give thousands of dollars to guards to let them go.
A Michigan mother made a small amount of moonshine and was sentenced to prison for life.
George Remus was a lawyer but saw that bootleggers paid large sums of money and made it look easy so he decided to bootleg, Remus was smart though what he did was he realized that there were lots of Alchohol in the distillery and Alchohol was only given to drug and medical companies sooooooo, he made his own "medical" company and imported Alchohol, the made his own transport company and transported the Alchohol, then he would send his men to intercept his delivery and and "take the Alchohol" and sell it, and Remus would be guilty to be violating the Volstead act 3000 times, 2 years he spent in prison his wife said would control the money while he was in prison but his wife had an affair and filed for divorce. sold everything in the mansion, and when Remus went home to the mansion everything was gone, a few months later he saw his wife in the car during the diverse trial got in a cab, and told the cab driver to run the car over after the car was on the ground he shot his wife, he handed himself in and was on a murder trial, he claimed he was insane, after 20 minutes of thinking the court said he was not guilty.
There were also underground secure drinking spots that looked like homes or shops and you also needed a password to get in, it was so hidden that everybody knows about them Speakeasies if one was shot down more would pop up in its place.
You see if you make something Legal you can control it, but make it Illegal then all rules go out the window.
Wayne Wheeler was trying to enforce the law but it just did not work.
Now Mobsters and Gangsters were getting into this and gunfights were in the streets and every city had a main Gang leader, Chicago had more gang violence than anywhere else in the US, then Al Capone came in, and most gang leaders would try to keep murder away from the police but he was different he spoke about his exploits on the media, one minute he would be killing a guy next the would be smiling on camera.
And just like every other person he gave money to guards to let him go.
Pauline Sabin was a rich woman and had a secret wine cellar in her mansion, she supported prohibition but after seeing what it did to the US, did not try to try to enforce prohibition, but to stop it entirely.
On the 14th Feb 1929. Al Capone Mobsters and cricket some Irish Mobsters to meet them to sell Illegal Alchohol, but they were police officers instead so the Irish Mobsters got shot down against a wall, The Valentines Day Massacre made people sick of the violence, the Hoover the President at the was pressured to do something, the government was trying so hard to capture Al Capone but they did catch him, for not paying taxes, while Al was in court he was really chill and did not bother, but what he did was a threatened the jury family's, so the court replaced to the jury with another jury, and lost and sent to prison for 11 years.
The final nail in the coffin was the stock market died, the great depression, violence prohibition, and bribes the people had enough, so they wanted to reelect a new president Franklin D. Roosevelt, once Franklin won by a landslide he made beer Legal, Wayne Wheeler was dead btw, and everyone was happy to drink beer and Alchohol at bars.
So the Mobs went to Illegal Drugs after Alchohol became legal.
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