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by andrewjl 823 days ago
> Obviously I wasn't around back in the mid-1900s, but I do wonder from time to time if people actually understood that this was the trade off we were all making in changing the culture like we did.

If you're talking about the 1950s a non-trivial percentage of married American women at that time routinely took stimulants and barbiturates.