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~ Cottage Economy, \u00a0William Cobbett, 1833

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I wish I could come up with a caption funnier than this extract.

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The thing is, we already laugh at movies like Reefer Madness for things like this. Anyone who doesn\u2019t think that, a century from now, people are going to rofl about current attitudes to, say, cocaine is kidding themself.

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Cocaine and pot were widely expected to be decriminalized in the US in the late \u201870s - at the time the two enjoyed the same \u201csoft drug\u201d 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\u2019s chief of staff doing blow at Studio 54.

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