This shouldn't be an individual problem with an individual solution

Alcohol is a societal problem that affects everyone in society. We all now know even a single drop is unhealthy and bad for you. It has no medical benefits and worse, it can change your brain chemistry and make you beholden to drinking more.

And knowing history, it sucks knowing we already had the societal solution: the 18th Amendment. Now, I know Prohibition gets clowned on by most modern folks as ineffective and counterproductive, but c'mon, consider:

- We don't need to do another failed drug war. Go after the suppliers only and treat users with compassion, not prison.

- By making it and keeping it an individual problem, alcoholism will persist endlessly through the ages. We will never "get over it" like other maladies of old (think TB, cholera, other ancient killers) if we don't actually take action as a society to fix it. Humans didn't wake up one morning and choose not to get cholera! They had to build sewage and treat the water, spending years and decades fighting for basic water infrastructure. Same goes for booze: the breweries need to be smashed, the vineyards burned, and the distilling plants demolished.

The goal of this subreddit seems clear: stop drinking. But it will never be accomplished so long as that goal is left to individual whims. People aren't smart or consistent enough to choose sobriety. If they were, this subreddit wouldn't exist. To be blunt: that choice needs to be made for them.

Is there anyone pushing to bring Prohibition back? How can we resurrect Temperance Leagues?