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......why is it that the US was decidedly more free and so very dynamic in the days when "drugs" were legal and Coke had cocaine?

More free? I think your imagining that's the way it was. Ingesting drugs doesn't mean your more free. America wasn't more free 80 years ago. Women were just given the right to vote and minority voting, especially in the old south, was looked upon in an unfavorable manner. There were a whole lotta poor people living in America, both black and white, and the average America lived to the ripe old age of 50-55. Come on!

I don't think you realize, just how good you have it today. You're living in the greatest nation in world history.

Hi Reagan Man
I too left NYC and never looked back, you were sensible to do it right after college
I waited way too long to do it
but better late than never

I now realize the corruption of government, caused by war on drugs
is detroying our government
However I think they are too sunk in it to stop voluntarily

The sooner we stop this insane war on drugs, the better off everyone will be
GO Rick Stanley!
Love, Palo

I'm voting Libertarian from now on to stop the war on drugs

More free? I think your imagining that's the way it was. Ingesting drugs doesn't mean your more free. America wasn't more free 80 years ago. Women were just given the right to vote and minority voting, especially in the old south, was looked upon in an unfavorable manner. There were a whole lotta poor people living in America, both black and white, and the average America lived to the ripe old age of 50-55. Come on! I don't think you realize, just how good you have it today. You're living in the greatest nation in world history.

Actually, I do know. But then, folks were much more individualistic. Folks were more community oriented. We didn't have confiscatory tax rates that enslave the wage earner to the whims of Congress-critters who seek votes by theft and redistribution. We had fewer laws that restricted speech and religion. WE could build as we pleased upon our own land without government interference. There are a host of ways that people were freer. Don't deny that.