No, that’s probably because of the Hayes Code, which limited the sorts of things you could show on TV. People don’t remember the real 1950s, just the film and TV of it.
As a woman with crippling ADHD, I can’t imagine the horror of trying the new wonder drug, discovering it helped me keep the house and avoid being beaten, and then eventually having to go back to doing without…
Oh, so that’s why people seem to remember the 50s fondly…
No, that’s probably because of the Hayes Code, which limited the sorts of things you could show on TV. People don’t remember the real 1950s, just the film and TV of it.
Yup. Tobacco, alcohol, and meth advertised directly to housewives. Yanno, good ol’ wholesome Americana.
How hard is it to read the article you posted? They didn’t sell methamphetamine to housewives, it was amphetamine. That is a VERY big difference
Yea, the ones selling methamphetamine to housewives were the Nazis in the '40s.
As a woman with crippling ADHD, I can’t imagine the horror of trying the new wonder drug, discovering it helped me keep the house and avoid being beaten, and then eventually having to go back to doing without…