No they didn't. That's another deceitful Libertarian talking point which I have destroyed too many times to count.
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.
I am well aware of “soldiers disease”, you should keep reading.
shortly thereafter?? 50+ years
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/Library/studies/vlr/vlrtoc.htm
This is something we read 35 years ago on Drug Laws, it is well worth the time to see how we got here.
Originally we got it from the University of Virginia, but when I did a google search this is where I found it.
—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.