Prohibition aides and cultivates an underworld which operates outside the bounds of legality. Rather put a high tax, like tobacco products, do the state can ma

Prohibition aides and cultivates an underworld which operates outside the bounds of legality. Rather put a high tax, like tobacco products, do the state can make a boatload of money from vices rather than enriching the criminal underworld and indirectly funding illegal guns, sex trade, rackets etc... Anecdotally, my own country banned alcohol and cigarette sales during the first lockdown. The black market rose from nowhere and made a filthy amount of money. You can guess whether or not the violent crime rate has increased of decreased.