I just find it interesting that so many of these patriotic Americans forget that Opium was real popular with the Constitution writing set.
But then lots of people don’t like the ugly truths of history.
Like the fact that drug laws only came about recently on the timescale of civilized man.
How oh how did we ever survive? How did we not collapse into a drug fueled haze?
Lets not speak of the sheer volumes of amphetamines that rushed through many of the projects like Manhattan and NASA.
Lets not mention the genesis and main ingredient of Coca Cola was Cocaine and men/women/children drank it freely with no CocaCola trade developing and CocaCola violence.
Drug use is part of every human era and many human endeavors. For better or worse, it just is.
I don’t know much about opium and the Framers, but I do know that potable water was harder to find and they therefore drank an amount of booze to put me on a coma, probably. This was also around the tine of the Gin epidemic in England. Our forefathers were lousy drunks, whatever else they were.
Yeah, like no one ever smoked rope in the old days...