Thus, you now admit that our constitution protects us from federal efforts to ban substances? How inconsistant can you get? Just a few posts ago you were defending the federal narcotics acts.
When it get's down to the state level, communities can set limits on the risks they are willing to take. If they don't like the risk of alcohol, they can ban it. Many counties do.
All levels of government can constitutionally 'regulate', within reason, the public use & sale.
-- As you admit above, outright prohibitions are unconstitutional without amendments.
Only defending why it was done. I never said it was constitutional.