It was mainly weed that was glamorized. Cocaine may have also been celebrated at times, but was condemned at other times. Heroin and meth never have been.
Steppenwolf - The Pusher
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XqyGoE2Q4Y
Eric Clapton - Cocaine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJyQpAiMXkg
Now, I listen to operatic arias. THEY are so beautiful that they are STILL be sung after hundreds of years AFTER they were composed. THEY stood the test of time.
Mind you, not all opera is good. I have a system.
"A" operas: so wonderful that I attend them any time I can. I stay the ENTIRE time. I am transformed by their melodic beauty. ♫ ♫ ♫ ♫ ♫
"B" operas: good with two or three arias or so that are GANGBUSTERS. ♫♫♫
"C" operas: yawn. Great if you care to take naps. I leave at the first intermission.
"D" operas: I run out AT THE FIRST HORRID THREE NOTES OF THE FIRST ARIA, silently SCREAMING, with my fingers in my ears. THESE die a natural death and are put on ONLY once.
"Old" money in large urban areas [London, Paris, Rome, Hamburg/Berlin, New York, Chicago, etc.] support these money drains. If the opera is put on with stupid costumes and/or absurd settings the old money frowns. The rest of us quietly leave at the first intermission. I leave when I damn well want to. So, I still enjoy the opera. I am seeing FOUR of the BIGGIES this upcoming season: Madame Butterfly, Don Giovanni and La Boheme. I just WON'T pay to see/hear the crap.
Check out at when they were first put on...they aren't new by any means. You can "google" any of those arias on YouTube and listen to the greatest opera singer sing their hearts out.
Example: Angela GHEORGHIU (soprano) - Vissi d'arte (the song)- Tosca (the opera)- Puccini (the composer) - YouTube
Maria Callas was also a FABULOUS soprano.
Another song Clapton "borrowed" from J.J. Cale (RIP). I'm a bit of a Cale fan, I admit.