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A local community passes a law prohibiting the sales of certain types of liquor, and you assert that isn't a prohibition, it's a limitation.
LOL right back at you. You cited...
"Some form of limitation on spirits has been part of this continent's history since the first European settlers arrived. Originally, these limitations were imposed to prevent drunkenness among the colonists."
Then, you said...Local prohibitions continued around America for centuries.
How does a local community passing a law prohibiting the sales of certain types of liquor constitute a prohibition and not a legal limitation? A legal limitation is not the same thing as a prohibition in that a prohibition would encompass the possession, manufacture as well as the sale of all types of liquor, not just "certain types of liquor". Even your hypothecized prohibition allows the sale, and presumably the possession and manufacture of some forms of liquor so it isn't an out and out banning, or prohibition.
And you accuse me of Newspeak? HA!