Re: Drug use in cartoons. I remember when the old theatrical shorts got stripped of their drug use starting even a little before Nancy Reagan.

One major example was a Merrie Melodies cartoon that was slowly chopped to shit over the years before my eyes. The plot had to do with two generic mice trying to drive a cat insane for to get rid of him out of the house. The first bit to be clipped was the times the cat went and took a bunch of "nerve pills", or gulped down "nerve tonic" as the pranks the mice pulled got worse and worse (the ol' nail furniture to the ceiling bit and crap like that, which made the cat increasingly question his sanity.) The whole cartoon eventually faded into oblivion, can't even remember its title now. I guess it was kind of dark. I think the mice won in the end. That's no reason to censor it, though. It'd be more useful as a study as to the decade it was made, or the Depression survivors who made it.