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> The war on drugs was never about health, but was about racism Weren't bans on drugs pervasive throughout history?

• rwmj 10y ago
  No, some controls were introduced at the end of the 19th century and prohibition (of non-alcohol drugs) really got going in the 1920s. Before that it was essentially a free-for-all.
  • dagw 10y ago
    True for Europe and America. Asia and the middle east have had religious bans that where legally backed up by theocratic governments or totalitarian rulers that would ban substances (mainly opium) on and off in their particular kingdoms.
• jessaustin 10y ago
  Weren't bans on drugs pervasive throughout history? Isn't it amazing that you think that? Seems to say something about the schools... If physicians can finally, at this late date, consider doing the right thing politically, it makes one wonder... will public schoolteachers ever kick the DARE officers out? Seems unlikely, doesn't it?
  • yodsanklai 10y ago
    > Isn't it amazing that you think that? According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition "The earliest records of prohibition of alcohol date to the Xia Dynasty (ca. 2070 BC–ca. 1600 BC) in China."
    • jessaustin 10y ago
      ...pervasive throughout history...