Amphetamines predate the 1960s: See https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/magazine/fast-times-the-life-death-and-rebirth-of-amphetamine https://www.scien

Amphetamines predate the 1960s: See https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/magazine/fast-times-the-life-death-and-rebirth-of-amphetamine https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/magazine/fast-t... and https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/drugs/buyers/socialhistory.html https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/drugs/buyers/... One takeaway from the article, IMO, is that American hypocrisy and flip-flopping wrt drug use has a long history. Something that is acceptable today becomes unacceptable tomorrow and then later acceptable again.