Was the failure of prohibition inevitable?

The first 200 words of this essay...

Oliver Smith

Was the failure of prohibition inevitable?

Prohibition started in the 1920's and ended in 1933, a failure, but was it inevitable right from the start, could it have been stopped from its crash collision course, and if so how. I will be looking over all the sources to see why it failed and if it was inevitable right from the start.

As soon as prohibition had started John F Kramer, the first prohibition commissioner spoke about how there was going to be zero tolerance with the lawbreakers and how the law will be obeyed everywhere and that it will not be either sold nor given away or manufactured.

"We shall see that it is not manufactured, nor sold nor given away!"

This is in source F, a speech about how prohibition will be enforced by John F Kramer.

In source A Historians said, "23 states had already enforced a ban on alcohol." Also American was told not to buy of German Americans who made the alcohol due to the war. People were also told that the grain needed to be saved for the soldiers in the war so they had sufficient food