[Southack]

"Government didn't "take" power during Prohibition..."

Of course it did. There are only 2 options, taking power or turning it down.

Well, government did not turn down the power of Prohibition. It took it.

[Reily]

The people in a fit of idiocy granted the federal government the power to prohibit 'adult beverages' through the 21st Amendment. Thus showing even the Founding Fathers underestimated the power of human stupidity ! Actually there is no constitutional way of turning that 'gift of power' down If the people constitutionally decide to enforce idiocy. It must be enforced !.

'Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain !'