The first one, spiking he drug supply with poisons, was mandated by the US government before and increasingly during alcohol prohibition. They weren’t sneaky a

The first one, spiking he drug supply with poisons, was mandated by the US government before and increasingly during alcohol prohibition. They weren’t sneaky about it, and they were doing it to industrial alcohols, but those were the same alcohols that the gangs were taking and re-distilling and reselling to people and they knew it. It was apparently controversial at the time. I’ve linked the snopes article because the situation was more nuanced than how I’d seen it represented before. But it does display the kind of callousness that would be needed to undertake any of the measures you outlined. https://www.snopes.com/government-poison-10000-americans/ https://www.snopes.com/government-poison-10000-americans/