Letter from Pitze's Beauty Parlor Supply in Favor of Repeal of Prohibition

Always controversial, the societal consensus regarding Prohibition crumbled. Like many others, these petitioners concluded that the attempt to enforce “moral” behavior had backfired. Prohibition had instead handed a booming business to gangsters, and legalizing alcohol again would lower crime and provide tax revenue. In 1933, the 21st Amendment repealed the 18th Amendment—the only time one amendment has negated another.