Vineland: The Sit-Com

[Paul Mackin]

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From: "Robin Landseadel" <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
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> In spite of these and other fiascos, however, the drugs war took
> hold in the public imagination. Instead of being understood as a
> health and social problem, drug addiction was defined as a
> law-and-order problem. Movies and TV serials spread the
> image of the drugs war around the world and shaped th;e way
> most countries responded to the problem of drug abuse.


Ironically the control of drugs in the U.S. was in an earlier day an effort 
to protect the public from potentially dangerous substances used in patent 
medicines and soft drinks.

It was only later in our history that the law and order boys took over.

P