Drug use was far higher in 1900 and somewhat before. We were am fine nation then without nearly the loss of freedom and liberty we have today.
Bee Ess.
LSD, MDMA hadn’t even been invented.
Pot smoking was little known outside certain subcultures.
Cocaine was known and abused as were opiates via smoking (rare) or in patent medicines which was common and that’s what I figure you are referring to.
Remember that song Wooly-booly? About Hadacol Haddie?