Prohibition
Outlawing of alcohol / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about prohibition of alcohol. For prohibition of other drugs, see Drug prohibition. For the general concept of legal prohibition, see Prohibitionism. For other uses, see Prohibition (disambiguation).
Prohibition is the act or practice of forbidding something by law; more particularly the term refers to the banning of the manufacture, storage (whether in barrels or in bottles), transportation, sale, possession, and consumption of alcoholic beverages. The word is also used to refer to a period of time during which such bans are enforced.