“In 1870 there were no drug laws in America and there were no overwhelming drug problems. Nobody should need to be Albert Einstein to figure that one out”
There wasn’t any drug problem in the 40s and 50s either, it was the stinking baby boomers that caused the whole problem!
Make drug use a capitol offense and the problem goes away.
Hey, that's a good idea. Let's kill everyone who smokes a little weed. Never happen though as it would wipe out the black population.
How about alcohol prohibition, why don’t we bring that back? And how about tabacco? That kills more folks a year than drugs do. Why are drugs bad and booze is ok?
Ok there Comrade Mao, let's execute the guy smoking pot or using Ecstasy. I wonder if you even know what a capitol offense means, if you did you would have not posted such stupidity.
It was Timothy Leary and black musicians who popularized it -- Leary was of an earlier generation, born during the Depression, and black musicians had been using "boo" since forever.
You're right, there wasn't a significant drug problem in the 50's the way there is now (although I did see an old episode of Highway Patrol a few nights ago that portrayed heroin smuggling in the late 50's, small distribution rings secreting two- and five-pound packages in automobile engine compartments and gutted car radios).