But it was overridden by congress.
The Volstead Act was the companion bill that established prohibition (along with the 18th amendment).
The amendment gave the power to congress to enact laws that would ban the sale of intoxicating liquors, and the Volstead Act was the law that defined what was considered intoxicating.
Source: The History Channel
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#1. Just because they couldn’t vote at the time doesn’t mean they were not drivers of Prohibition.
#2. If they had the right to vote, would your comment start, “Since women had recently won the right to vote, Prohibition won in a landslide?”
I wonder how today’s more enlighten women would vote on it now!