[ConservingFreedom]

There is no reason to expect a "proliferation of stoners" - the end of Prohibition didn't result in a proliferation of drunks.

Only because it coincided with the Depression- no money to buy alcohol.

I know of no evidence for a proliferation of drunks at the end of the Depression, either.

[GenXteacher]

World War II... And it is not until afterward that alcohol use returned to its pre-Prohibition level.