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America's regulation of a once private activity
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from the first state bans on opium in the 1870s
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to the contemporary anti-drug regime
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complete with a powerful national drug czar.
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American politics again refutes or at least qualifies
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this picture we have in our heads of an individualistic,
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anti-government, rights rich political culture.
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A couple of drug war moments.
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This is an 1890s advertisement,
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ordinary advertisement you'd see in the newspaper
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like you do for
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Filene's Basement today.