re: what was capitalisms role in the suppression of this superior product?

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Setting aside the arguability of this statement, the answer (not the one you are looking for) is CORRUPTION and efforts at population control.

Americans have always scared somewhat easily (despite our notions about "toughness" of prior generations), and government officials (not "Capitalists") used a whole range of scare tactics to gin up support for a broad range of prohibition measures from the 20s (during the alcohol prohibition era) through the late 30s (peak of The New Deal(tm)).

Trying to pin this on "capitalism" is very akin to trying to pin prohibition of prostitution on "capitalism" - nonsense. It is government elites who push such policies, enact them, enforce them, sustain them and, ultimately, benefit from them.

"Capitalism" would gladly sell a valid product in a competitive marketplace.

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do you even know a main reason alcohol was prohibited for a short time? oil

it was a way to centralize energy production because alcohol was a cheap, decentralized way to produce fuel. the money behind prohibition trace to the oil-garchs.

your analogy was laughably retarded. there is no comparison to a product with hundreds of great uses and zero negative effects to a women selling herself on a street corner and societies decision to outlaw that in the public domain.

you are coping by trying really hard to find an answer that doesn't incriminate your favorite ism.

those in control of industries through collusion and government ownership didn't want anything to disrupt the trajectory of their power and control. Period.