In the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s these illegal drugs like marijuana, cocaine, heroine, and LSD found their way onto college campuses and were heavily used by the musical groups mainly formed in the 1960s like the:
- Doors
- Beatles
- Rolling Stone
- Ten Years After
- Eagles
- Peter, Paul, & Mary
- James Taylor
- Credence Clearwater Revival
- Steppenwolf
- Jefferson Airplane
Artists, writers, actors and actresses, along with the wealthy and middle and upper management in industry in a recreational ways, oftentimes not realizing they were becoming addicted. If you were high it did not really matter if you got shot or how bad you were shot.
Around late 1960s and early 1970s, Americans were learning that most soldiers who were in Vietnam were taking drugs to suppress the anxiety of going out to war and possible not coming back.
During this same timeframe, doctors were prescribing relaxing meds to housewives along with pain meds not really understanding or even caring that their patients were slowly becoming addicted as well.
Sometime in the 1990s/2000s, not only did we seriously begin to realize that many Americans were addicted to drugs, treating it as if we were at war, but clever chemists started creating designer drugs that were easy to manufacture and even easier to sell becuause they were relatively inexperienced.
Countries all over the world were growing and/or designing drugs specifically to sell to AMERICANS because their appetites were INSATIABLE... The more they made, the more Americans would buy them...
Illegal drugs DID NOT replace tobacco or alcohol because both of those were also consumed in great quantities with cigarettes being the most costly to purchase.
Illegal drugs did not just find their way into our colleges and universities but they found their way into our high schools both public and private. Now from about 2015 to the present time, illegal drugs are making their way into junior high schools and elementary schoools and NO ONE SEEMS TO CARE...
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