~ Cottage Economy, William Cobbett, 1833
~ Cottage Economy, William Cobbett, 1833
I wish I could come up with a caption funnier than this extract.
The thing is, we already laugh at movies like Reefer Madness for things like this. Anyone who doesn’t think that, a century from now, people are going to rofl about current attitudes to, say, cocaine is kidding themself.
Cocaine and pot were widely expected to be decriminalized in the US in the late ‘70s - at the time the two enjoyed the same “soft drug” identity, plates of white flake got the High Times centerfold a few times. What possibly derailed it was the FBI threatening to make a thing about Carter’s chief of staff doing blow at Studio 54.
