I’d say that it’s actually harder from an enforcement standpoint, because if you catch someone going to a speakeasy or running one, you can punish them to deter consumption.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Increased_Penalties_Act
The Increased Penalties Act was a bill that increased the penalties for violating prohibition. Enacted on March 2, 1929, it is also called the “Jones–Stalker Act” or the “Jones Act”. The legislation was sponsored by two Republicans, Sen. Wesley L. Jones of Washington and Rep. Gale H. Stalker of upstate New York State. It stipulated that wherever any penalty was prescribed for the illegal manufacture, sale, transportation, importation, or exportation of intoxicating liquor as defined in the Volstead Act of 1919, the penalty imposed for each such offense should be a fine not to exceed $10,000 or imprisonment not to exceed five years, or both. The Act did not repeal any minimum penalties then prescribed by law. It further declared that it was the intent of Congress that the courts, in sentencing offenders, “should discriminate between casual or slight violations and habitual sales of intoxicating liquor, or attempts to commercialize violations of the law.”
It’s probably not going to be politically acceptable to apply criminal penalties to kids to stop them from chatting with each other.