Prohibition of alcohol certainly didn't make it safer! In fact it made it decidedly much less safe (people going blind/dying from methanol poisoning). There we

Prohibition of alcohol certainly didn't make it safer! In fact it made it decidedly much less safe (people going blind/dying from methanol poisoning). There were also other downsides, such as increase in gang power due to profits from alcohol running, sales. It seems like there would be similar parallels to prostitutions (gangs, pimps, etc).