[familyop]

"By 1900, about one American in 200 was either a cocaine or opium addict."

You didn't cover the reaction to that problem or the 1930s through the 1950s. You didn't cover the lynchings of the gangsters that spurred the feds to go to work.

[Ken H]

I wasn't aware that pharmacists and other legal outlets for drugs sales in the early 20th century were targets of lynchings.

I thought drug killings began with drug prohibition.