The offenses that followed made Prohibition a true failure. The negligences that occurred was due to the Volstead Act, written by Andrew J. Volstead (“Prohibition: A Case Study”). He was ordered to provide the government with the means of enforcing Prohibition, but there was too many loopholes in the Act. Loopholes for bootleggers to get through included that alcohol used for medicine, sacramental, and industrial uses were still legal. Furthermore, fruit and grape beverages made at home were legal too. After the realization of the failure of the Prohibition law, the whole idea became more of an ideal than a reality to the government. Trying to find solutions to end these violations, the government set up police to look over the laws of prohibition,
