It wasn't the people dying from bad moonshine that reversed the prohibition amendemt. It was the gang violence on the streets of America against Americans. The American press largely ignores the brutal violence in the third world countries that our prohibition creates. Legalization and regulation would not only cut out most of the violent gang/turf wars but it would also cut down a signification number of people, like Tom Petty, from dying of overdoeses. Interdiction and incarceration is a failure, but it is better than the summary execution/extra-judicial executions, of suspected drug runners.