[JustSayNoToNannies]

And for most of those centuries when it was busy not catching on, it was legal - so where's the worry in relegalizing it?

Not re-legalise.

Like all laws, the law doesn’t get written until the government claims that a problem arises.

There, now that's correct.

[ansel12]

If you think America has always been a dictatorship, or whatever you think led to laws, such as the anti-polygamy laws in the distant past.