Instead, by the end of Prohibition in 1933, the federal poisoning program had killed at least 10,000 people by some estimates. It is a species of intemperance within itself, for it goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes.
Almost before the ink was dry on the 18th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which prohibited the "manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors," people were finding ways to circumvent it.