[philman_36]

"a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages"...plural, meaning all alcoholic beverages otherwise it woulds state "a law forbidding the sale of a certain alcoholic beverage"!
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.
You aren't banning the sale of all liquors, just certain ones!

[Roscoe]

You aren't banning the sale of all liquors, just certain ones!

National prohibition didn't ban the sale of all drinks containing alcohol, so again by your "reasoning" (chortle), Prohibition wasn't prohibition.