The Dems conveniently leave out the fact that it was they who banned the stuff in the first place.
Very true, and since they hide that and still want to ban tobacco and because they want to expand statism which will lead to crackdowns on alcohol buyers, what I said goes double, in fact triple, for them.
Well...to be honest...the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 is what made it illegal across the entire US, and the majority in the House and Senate at the time...were Republican.
I should also note....they tried awful hard to make Coke (which had the ingredient of cocaine up until 1903) illegal. The Coke guys realized the implications and flipped over to caffeine being the active ingredient. Course, switching over to caffeine didn’t stop the attempted ban.
The court case dragged out and Coke was given one brief reprieve....it could use caffeine, but the higher court said that the Congress could still ban it....if so deemed. So an “agreement” was reached....with less caffeine used, and one would imagine a bonus slush fund was established somewhere....for the poor Congressmen and Senators in the interest of Coke Inc.
Everyone always talks big over the Pure Food and Drug Act....but it was a dual-edged sword and did just as much harm as it did good.
The neat thing.....up until 1906....there were a high number of women throughout America who were mostly doped up by noon of each day, and somehow....we as a nation survived with all these women in a daze. After the act....doping up was pretty difficult to accomplish....so we all mostly flipped to more alcohol consumed....which triggered the next problem....the banning of booze across America. Yeah, as much as we rush to fix things....we usually trigger the next problem.
Many moons ago, the essential textbook of every pharmacy student, “Goodman and Gilman’s The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics” offered historical anecdotes regarding the evolution of many useful drug entities. I cannot cite the exact edition, but the historical footnotes on cocaine were very entertaining.The stories alluded to southern democrats in congress claiming that “coked up *******” would not be a good thing at all.
Yes, I am a nerd. I read my textbooks, they were better than sleeping pills.
“The Dems conveniently leave out the fact that it was they who banned the stuff in the first place.”
Do you remember why it was that they banned it?