re: #463 Guanxi88

Case in point:

Up until about 1920 one could walk down to post office and pick up a fully automatic thompson sub-machine gun, ordered by mail. With this package tucked under your arm, you could toddle down to the pharmacy for a bottle of laudanum, swing by the hardware store for a couple sticks of dynamite, and then stroll back home, all without breaking any laws.

Opiates everywhere you looked!

Nobody would really go all small government about the sale of opiates over the counter. Or the fact that government regulations got rid of opiates and patent medicine (well, some of it) But that’s how we used to do things.