this is an encyclopaedia not a dictonary the prohibition page was created to provide information on historical periods concerning the prohibition of alcohol which have generally been name prohibition by both historians and people living at the time of such prohibitions it isn't being used in this article as a more general term of prohibition but that of these historical periods a page defining prohibition has no place on wikipedia maybe on wictionary wikipedia uses it in this sense if you're not happy with it and want to be able to have a page where you can criticise the current legalities and moral issues of the us government not letting it's citizens use cocaine and the like then you're in the wrong place talk