What some people just do not get:  Before there were drug laws, there was no drug culture.  Libertarians, hippies, and Drug-Warriors all share the same blind spot here.

Indeed, once upon a time, there was the practical opposite of a drug culture.  Before there were drug laws—before there was a drug problem—Western societies were what $YEAR would consider ultra-arch-paleo-conservative.  Yes, you could then buy some heavy-duty drugs at the drug store; that’s why it’s called the drug store!  Yet anybody who became patently dysfunctional from addiction to cocaine, opiates, or for that matter, alcohol would be mercilessly shamed, shunned, humiliated, and outcast from civil society.

Addiction was not (and is not) an “illness”; it was (and is) a character flaw.  Those who overtly demonstrated such flaws could go die in a hole, as far as sane people were concerned.

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You must not have respect for science. Please educate yourself.