Cannabis and LSD have their issues, sure; but, so do so many other drugs that aren’t schedule I.
Scheduled drugs are simply politicized to separate the ‘desirables’ from the ‘un-‘.
source: my family
Turn on. Tune in. Drop out.
Apart from being really stupid advice it was viewed, correctly, as a direct threat to the established order. The established order is very bad (no arguments now?) but Tim and Ken were being very stupid and bought a whole load of shit down and put psychedelics back 40 years
GP's comment isn't suggesting alcoholics are desirable, but that people who preferred alcohol over other drugs were historically part of the "desirable" group. That's my reading of GP's intent, anyway.
there was a lot of racism in US legal history, but don't try to make drugs and white people who wanted to do drugs the victims, it was non-white people who were the victims directly.