 um and visit so-called you know speakeasies and get alcohol oftentimes these weren't even covert operations you could just ask the waiter for wine and he would bring you some um so it didn't work you know um just on its own terms um it also bore all sorts of perverse consequences as well and ironically you know we we see the exact same logic play out in the war on drugs but for some reason we continue that while we see prohibition as a failure