—It is a deliberate effort to mislead the public about the fact that drugs were mostly unknown in the early days of the Republic, and not till they became widespread after the Civil War did anyone realize just how dangerous they were.
Laws to regulate them came shortly thereafter.—
Nonsense. Alcohol has been around for how many 1000s of years?
I also love how you think “60 years” equals “shortly thereafter”.
Conservatives rightly complain about government propaganda unless the propaganda is about drugs, then everyone here thinks the government should be trusted. Laughable.
Ten million years, but rational people don't normally equate alcohol to illegal drugs. That just seems to be the pastime of the Libertarian dope promoters.
I also love how you think “60 years” equals “shortly thereafter”.
And there it is in a nutshell why you short term thinking people have no business tampering with social policy. You don't have a grasp of nations and peoples. You think everything revolves around your own existence and your own experiences.
Hate to break it to you, but it's not all about you and your whims.
Yes, 60 years is a very short time for a nation that has existed for nearly four thousand years.