Is it because alcohol, tobacco, and firearms also have legal pathways? So they spend time tracking down cheats and checking/enforcing regulations?

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    Are we forgetting that you could buy morphine and even diamorphine tinctures legally for a long time? Often marketed as cough medicine.

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        Some people say they were born in the wrong decade. Today I learned I was born in the wrong century.

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      Yeah this person doesn’t know what they’re talking about. Heroin was invented in the 1870s and sold by the Bayer company as a non-addictive (lol) alternative to laudanum by the 1890s