The Eighteenth Amendment started Prohibition in 1918 and was aimed at curbing hard liquor. Provisions in the amendment did allow legislation of beverages with less alcohol. Within weeks after Franklin Roosevelt was sworn in as President in 1933 he asked Congress to legalize 3.2 beer which it did and by the end of his first month as President beer parties were being held. This was part of FDR’s plan to change the psyche of the country in the mist of the Depression. The Eighteenth Amendment was repealed by the end of the year.

(Book – The Defining Moment: FDR’s Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope)