Baloney. Prohibition failed because Joe Kennedy, Al Capone, et al. found they could make lots of money violating it. Same with the goons currently providing truly prohibited marijuana, cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine etc. to folks who want the stuff.
Good luck with prohibition among the Aborigines ... it works great in Indian reservations and Inuit villages. < snort >
If I grew up in a socialist/welfare plantation, constantly immersed in the mindset of ghetto/projects/reservations/Democrat/Socialist mind think.....I’d drink my self blind too.
Australia has a history of socialism. Further the aborginioes can be thought of as either our urban/detroit/oakland/ black urban walking dead or American Indian reservation/plantation serfs. Another group, just to dispel the race element is of course Russians under Soviet socialism. So too the Irish under British paternalism.
Where ever you find velvet gloved socialism, you find dispiritism and alcoholism in mass amounts.
They made money because the possession of alcohol was still legal, and because law enforcement was banned from inspecting establishments for the sole purpose of finding alcohol.