[MrLeRoy]

Surely you will not deny that the majority of the population TOOK cocaine and or heroin.

I have no knowledge that this was the case. And it certainly doesn't prove that anything close to a majority was addicted.

1903 was when heroin or opiate addiction was at it's worst in America. FAR worse than it is today.

And yet 1903 is generally regarded as (in social aspects) a better time. What does that tell us?

[Texaggie79]

It tells me that you must be smoking something. They criminalized it because it was such an epidemic. Do you REALLY think they would have banned such a profitable product unless it was an absolute detriment to society?