HIYA KIDS! WHO’S READY TO GET HIGH?
Jun. 21st, 2010 01:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
defrogITEM [via io9]: Back in the 50s, Mickey Mouse and Goofy were heavily into psychoactive drugs, and even sold them to people in third-world countries after forcing it down their throats.
Evidence: this mini-comic from 1951 that was one of an eight-comic set on offer from General Mills for 15 cents and a Wheaties box top.
Fascinating not only for its pro-drug message (and remembering that uppers and downers were mostly legal in the US at the time) but also for its blatant racial stereotypes.
You could do that in the 50s. Not so much today.
Mostly.
The need for speed,
This is dF
Evidence: this mini-comic from 1951 that was one of an eight-comic set on offer from General Mills for 15 cents and a Wheaties box top.
Fascinating not only for its pro-drug message (and remembering that uppers and downers were mostly legal in the US at the time) but also for its blatant racial stereotypes.
You could do that in the 50s. Not so much today.
Mostly.
The need for speed,
This is dF
