Amendment 18

"Section 1.After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited.

Section 2.The Congress and the several states shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

Section 3.This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of the several states, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the states by the Congress."

This amendment is where the prohibition era began, creating some of the craziest party years of the U. S. There were more people drinking during prohibition than there were before. It is just like when your parents tell you not to do something when you were younger and yet you do it because they told you you can't. I think whomever passed this amendment meant well, but law enforcement was costing the U. S. more than it had ever before, and so it was later repealed to create peace among the government and the people. 

This video quickly explains the prohibition era and why it was overturned. Franklin Roosevelt campaigned against prohibition, creating his path to the White House. I can only imagine what Europe was thinking when this was going on in the U. S...

This comic covers the Prohibition because the "wet trough" is representing the "wet" vs "dry" people in the U. S. This means that people who drink are wet, people who don't are dry.