DBWI an american war on drugs

In the period between the start of the 20th century and the 1920s there was an effort to ban harmful drugs, and even alcohal. These efforts failed miserably in the US but managed to succede in europe and east asia. Wear as the rest of the world bans stuff like Cocaine, Meth, and other hard drugs. The most the US does is a rating system. That restricts certain drugs by age and thats more or less it, and thats state by state not a federal policy.

But lets say the progressives had pulled it off what would america look like today?
 
Well to an extent, there was a War on Drugs in the early part of the 20th Century; it's just that the Federal Government never really managed to coordinate the various state and local moves in this direction into a national policy. The closest they managed was the Harrison Act in 1915, which was defanged by the courts just a few years later; there was indeed a move to ban alcohol, with a constitutional amendment no less, but it failed to pass.
 
Well to an extent, there was a War on Drugs in the early part of the 20th Century; it's just that the Federal Government never really managed to coordinate the various state and local moves in this direction into a national policy. The closest they managed was the Harrison Act in 1915, which was defanged by the courts just a few years later; there was indeed a move to ban alcohol, with a constitutional amendment no less, but it failed to pass.

and there was a failed attempt to ban heroine vending machines here in cali a few years back, best we got was a regulation that they coulden't be outside anymore.
 
Sounds ASB to me. Who in their right mind would think prohibition is a good idea after our failed experiment with banning alcohol?

Hearst tried to put out Reefer Madness propaganda in the 1930s, but fortunately common sense prevailed and we realized how dumb it is to ban a plant.
 
The new designer drugs Big Pharma came out with in the 2000s was a major game change. The human body isn't a philosophical concept, its a bunch of meat programmed a certain way. It can be hacked, and no amount of willpower can stop that. How many people under 30 are hooked on these drugs and collecting SSDI while they veg out all day? Dystopian Sci-Fi writers were right for once.
 
Sounds ASB to me. Who in their right mind would think prohibition is a good idea after our failed experiment with banning alcohol?

Hearst tried to put out Reefer Madness propaganda in the 1930s, but fortunately common sense prevailed and we realized how dumb it is to ban a plant.

Hearts efforts were destroyed by the paper companies, they wanted to be able to continue to use cheap hemp paper rather then the slightly more expensive paper made out of trees.
 

hammo1j

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It's kinda almost as if they had been banned. Just tested clean for my employment as a programmer.

You can't even booze without loosing your job these days!
 
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