Is it really?  The vast majority of Prohibition era issues were relatively substance independent, and given that we&#x27;ve seen the EXACT same public response, political&#x2F;buzzword currents surrounding the pro-prohibition movements, and emergent criminal enterprise, I think it&#x27;s fair to say that &quot;prohibition of *&quot; is a reasonable class to abstract by.<p>(Watching Ken Burns &quot;Prohibition&quot; is something I&#x27;d strongly recommend to just about anyone, not only is it a fantastic documentary as par for the course for Burns, but it was a steady stream of &quot;HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF&quot; in such stark terms as you rarely see.)