Prohibition would not have removed drinking. Maybe it would have reduced it, but it would have made the current drug problem 3x worse, and given a lot more money to organized crime. The US probably would have been in a worse place overall
Drinking and driving is a problem though, and that being lessened would have been a good thing. But then again, you don't need to ban alcohol to solve that problem. Introduce actual and functioning public transport
I'm surprised everyone having laptops and using them for school isn't standard. It's been standard when I was in school here in Norway a decade ago