I was watching "The Drug Years" on VH1 a while ago and it seemed like in the 60's and some of the 70's drugs were really popular and "cool" and people openly admitted to taking drugs and weren't ashamed or put into rehab.
2006-07-03 01:06:28 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Because major drug companies realized how much money they would make if they made it illegal. So they bought some politicians and had them change the laws. Now you have to fake an illness to get various forms of X (aka Zoloft, or Valium) or pot (THC).
2006-07-03 01:18:18 · answer #1 · answered by jen 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the goverment has successfully blurred the difference between 'use' and 'abuse' while quoting "facts" which , in some cases, are discredited by their own research.
I won't argue the pros and cons of chemical drugs, as I've seen people destroy themselves while others use them and continue to be productive members of society.
Marijuana, on the other hand, was made illegal in the late 1930's (
In 1937 the last year that marijuana was legal only 100,000 Americans used marijuana, hardly a major problem). The chemical, cotton, oil and timber industries were some of the main powers behind this new law, and wanted it outlawed not because of it's intoxicating properties, but because it's cousin (hemp) was a threat to their continued wealth. Hemp can be used to produce more than 25,000 products including a non-toxic diesel fuel, paint, varnish, detergent, ink and lubricating oil.
United States Presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson grew hemp, used products made from hemp, and praised the hemp plant in some of their writings. Under the laws written by today’s politicians, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson would be considered a threat to society—they would be arrested and thrown in prison for the felony crime of growing plants.
2006-07-03 02:45:14 · answer #2 · answered by Dale T 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well it depends where you live. I'm in Canada and drugs aren't frowned upon as best I can see. In fact I think they may be the reason this nation enjoys pancakes and maple syrup so much, the munchies; eh. Our way of life was founded upon the principal of being half in the bag, either booze or some other substance and my observations are that this is only growing. No wonder we have so many holidays.
2006-07-03 01:32:11 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It didn't take America long to see the negative reprucussions those drugs had. And just how unproductive they were (are). Plus, there is a huge difference between 1960's marijuana and 2006 Crystal Meth.
Last point here--I think everyone either outgrew their drugs or died. College is over, crap, need a career now. Hmmm....people drug test...crap. Well, turn out the lights, the party's over.
2006-07-03 01:13:38 · answer #4 · answered by Bruce B 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i put it down to aging and the sudden realization that the kids of these former stoners were going to get into the same crap that they did when they were younger. parents want their children to grow up. leave the house, and become productive members of society, not hopped-up stoners braindead on meth.
thus the change in attitude.
2006-07-03 01:21:21 · answer #5 · answered by k m 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they still do now more people take drugs now than the 60s
2006-07-03 01:10:37 · answer #6 · answered by cgdchris 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
FROWNED ON?
Hell man, don't you know they're illegal? Can produce a prison sentence?
Did that program not reveal how many dead, and "living dead" were/are a result of drugs?
2006-07-03 01:14:54 · answer #7 · answered by ed 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When this generation realized that only losers did them.
2006-07-03 01:10:41 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
becase of the rampid use and of meth
2006-07-03 01:11:18 · answer #9 · answered by newmanandwife 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
when did this happen?
2006-07-03 01:12:22 · answer #10 · answered by elman411 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋