Twenty-first Amendment

Alcohol Prohibition is repealed by ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The focus of federal agencies shifts increasingly to combating illicit drug use. 

Twenty-first Amendment to the Constitution repeals Eighteenth Amendment and makes it legal to sell and consume alcohol in United States. 

Temperance movements began to spring up in America largely supported by religious groups. By the eighteenth century the American Temperance Society promoted the concept of total abstinence from alcohol. In 1919 laws prohibiting the sale and consumption of alcohol nationwide were enacted, but these laws were repealed in 1933 by the Twenty-first Amendment to the Constitution. 

As you may be aware, and as discussed further in Chapter 9, Prohibition was an experiment in drug control that did not succeed, and the Eighteenth Amendment was repealed 13 years later by the Twenty-first Amendment. Although Prohibition is... 

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