Amendment 21

Section 1. The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.


Section 2. The transportation or importation into any State, Territory, or possession of the United States for delivery or use therein of intoxicating liquors, in violation of the laws thereof, is hereby prohibited.

Section 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by conventions in the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission here of to the States by the Congress.

This amendment repealed prohibition.
 

 
This picture was an ad in the 1930's that dipicts a mother trying to protect her child from the organized crime that was rampent during prohibition.
 

 
This political cartoon depicts one of the main reasons prohibition failed, lack of enforcement. Because of this it was still fairly easy to make and sell alcohol, which fueled huge amounts of organized crime until the 21st amendment.