[Moonman62]

So America was known for its widespread legal and recreational drug use until 1937?

[MamaTexan]

So America was known for its widespread legal and recreational drug use until 1937?

No, America was known as a land of FREEDOM where what a person ingested was their own business.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

So America was known for its widespread legal and recreational drug use until 1937?

Changing parameters mid-stream?

Show me the successful societies that tolerate legal and widespread recreational drug use.

Know your history, man.

[grjr21]

From Wiki

In 1885 the U.S. manufacturer Parke-Davis sold cocaine in various forms, including cigarettes, powder, and even a cocaine mixture that could be injected directly into the user’s veins with the included needle. The company promised that its cocaine products would “supply the place of food, make the coward brave, the silent eloquent and ... render the sufferer insensitive to pain.”

[xpertskir]

So America was known for its widespread legal and recreational drug use until 1937?

What an utterly moronic statement. As if any intellectually honest person wants the U.S. to be "known" for widespread legal drug use. The real argument is if a governmental entity has the right to intervene to begin with. Up until 1937 the government chose not to intervene and things were going just fine.