What Prohibition? Possession was legal. Doctors could prescribe whiskey as "medicine." Low alcohol beer was legal. Law enforcement officers couldn't enter establishments that were serving it. It was Prohibition in name only.
Manufacture, sale, and transportation were illegal ... that's plenty of prohibition.
Doctors could prescribe whiskey as "medicine."
Doctors can prescribe cocaine and opiates. Does that prove there's no real War on Drugs?
Low alcohol beer was legal. Law enforcement officers couldn't enter establishments that were serving it.
Not even with probable cause? Have any evidence for that claim?
You're describing marijuana use in California.