Drugs allowing none-white males to victimize white women goes back deep into the 1800's. It makes a good excuse to explain why white women will have sex with non-white men. Opium dens for Chinese men. Pot was black/mexicans. Also made them "uppity". LSD was the hippies, but you get the undesirable sex part too, but less racial.
American has this strange Puritan streak where we like to pretend that monogamy is the only thing people want, and we need excuse (the devil) to explain why it is not that way. IMO, in some ways, our drug laws can be seen as a proxy war on the devil.
Yep. Which is, again, one of the main reasons that I believe that it was inevitable.
I'm not so sure an amendment was required to outlaw liquor; that was just the way it happened. Congress did outlaw cocaine earlier in the decade. They could have just as easily outlawed whiskey circa 1916 and whole history of liquor control would have changed. Perhaps mixed drinks would have returned only at the hands of licensed bartenders, to assure the drinks were not served too strong. But then again, some of the more fancy mixed drinks might not have emerged without bad-tasting bootleg liquor. In any case, the spread of organized crime would have been greatly affected.
It may not have been, TBH.
Some agents are going to be banned regardless. If you think drunk drivers are a hazard, imagine somebody doped up on LSD driving. Alcohol dulls the reflexes, but hallucines are going to make the driver think pedestrians are demonic dung beetles or something, and he'll deliberately hit them.
True.
I think even with the lack of the "rebelling" aspect of marijuana use, a subculture like hippies could still find psychoactives alluring; especially so with strong psychedelic drugs like LSD and natural occurring hallucinogens (psilocybin etm.)
That I can agree with.