Originally Posted by MrSelfDestruct

In the US, many things that are normal in other parts of the developed world are taboo. We have not yet escaped the puritanical roots of our society, although my generation is experiencing the death knell of neoconservatism. I was four years old when Reagan's war on drugs went mainstream, and twenty years later it, along with many closed-minded policies of the era, are coming to an end. The campaign of institutionalized ignorance against recreational drug use in America is dying, and I hope its lifeless corpse will soon be kicked to the gutter to rot.