[MetaThought]

But they were fine with morphine and marijuana being widely available.

[Kickass Conservative]

Codeine used to be non prescription, until teenagers started swilling Cough Syrup for the numbing effect.

[ansel12]

You don’t confront nothing, until it becomes something.

Cannabis had never come up in Western civilization (as an intoxicant), it was used for ropes and such, but not for getting stoned by whites, it was rejected as an intoxicant in the ancient times, forbidden by old Western Culture, it was confined to be an Eastern/Arab thing.

The parts of the world that have been cannabis drenched for 1000s of years, are all very much like what one would expect from cannabis cultures, very unlike the alcohol based Western Civilization world.