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Why was prohibition’s success short-lived?

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The people running illegal alcohol operations had plenty of money with which to pay such bribes. Because there were few federal agents, and because local police were often easily bribed, the law was not enforced very strongly. Finally, Prohibition failed because it gave rise to tremendous amounts of organized crime

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