Weren't bans on drugs pervasive throughout history?
Isn't it amazing that you think that? Seems to say something about the schools... If physicians can finally, at this late date, consider doing the right thing politically, it makes one wonder... will public schoolteachers ever kick the DARE officers out?
No, some controls were introduced at the end of the 19th century and prohibition (of non-alcohol drugs) really got going in the 1920s. Before that it was essentially a free-for-all.
True for Europe and America. Asia and the middle east have had religious bans that where legally backed up by theocratic governments or totalitarian rulers that would ban substances (mainly opium) on and off in their particular kingdoms.
Weren't bans on drugs pervasive throughout history?