And in most of human history, was there a subcomponent of the population that was drug addicted to the point where they could perform no useful work and became burdens on society? I think a lot of drug abuse laws must have come into being because society itself was changing. That would be because the factors in a relatively modern society that allow the existence of freeloaders who exist only to get high did not exist before industrialization.
“That would be because the factors in a relatively modern society that allow the existence of freeloaders who exist only to get high did not exist before industrialization.”
Thanks, I have told people exactly that on more than one occasion. Even when I was growing up it would have been impossible to support the percentage of the population that we have been trying to support with them contributing very little or nothing to their own support. The liberals who rave that we who don’t want to work just to support people who won’t work are heartless villains don’t seem to understand that just one hundred years ago there would have been no way possible for that percentage of the population to live on the dole, they would have had to make their own way or starve.