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John D. Rockefeller, Jr., a lifelong abstainer who had contributed at least $350,000 and perhaps as much as $700,000 to the Anti-Saloon League, announced his support for repeal because of the widespread problems caused by prohibition. 6 He explained his change of belief in a letter published in The New York Times:

When the Eighteenth Amendment was passed I earnestly hoped- with a host of advocates of temperance-that it would be generally supported by public opinion and thus the day be hastened when the value to society of men with minds and bodies free from the undermining effects of alcohol would be generally realized. That this has not been the result, but rather that drinking has generally increased; that the speakeasy has replaced the saloon, not only unit for unit, but probably two-fold if not three-fold; that a vast array of lawbreakers has been recruited and financed on a colossal scale; that many of our best citizens, piqued at what they regarded as an infringement of their private rights, have openly and unabashedly disregarded the Eighteenth Amendment; that as an inevitable result respect for all law has been greatly lessened; that crime has increased to an unprecedented degree-I have slowly and reluctantly come to believe.7

 

 ....The Democratic Party platform in the 1932 election included an anti-prohibition plank and Franklin Roosevelt ran for the presidency promising repeal, which occurred on December 5, 1933. The popular vote for repeal of prohibition was 74 percent in favor and 26 percent in opposition. 12  By a three to one vote, the American people rejected prohibition; only two states opposed repeal.

 

 

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Thinking about the time lines that line up... prohabition may have been a major cause leading up to and during the first few years of the depression. You can only have so much of the population turned into crtiminals before all the cost to the economy drags it down to depression, the war on drugs is depleating the dollar and lining up the USA  for another depression.