*FDR? The marijuana out there today is 20 times more potent than in the 60’s*
This country also somehow survived and flourished with EVERYTHING ELSE LEGAL until the 1920s.
You used to be able to buy morphine and syringes in the Sears Catalog for pete’s sake.
I can drink a beer that is 4 times more powerful than was allowed in my state for most of its existence, too. Guess what, society hasn’t crumbled because of barleywine either.
That’s in part because not everyone is a hardcore alcoholic, pothead, or narcotic user. It doesn’t always take a law against something to figure that perhaps it either should be used with plenty of control or avoided for one’s own benefit.