Big pharma is still doing just that with their super-addictive opiods, benzos, amphetamines and hypnotics. Pharma reps have been caught encouraging doctors to create more addicts. And we pay for these pills and resulting addicts with our tax dollars!
I agree 100%. Such things should be outlawed.
However, banning PLANTS on PRIVATE PROPERTY for personal/research/family use is legislated IGNORANCE and tyranny! How can you stand for such an assault on freedom, science and nature?
Why can someone not grow their own medicine if it helps them live? Why must law abiding people be forced to pay OBSCENE money to corporations for medicine if it already easily grows in the ground???
Not everyone knows chemistry ( hell most people ), couldn't make their own meds if someone'/s life depended on it, and don't understand the meaning of the words "tyranny", "freedom", "private property", nor "freedom"!
Here are a few factual history lessons for ya.....
Once upon a time, all substances that you want made free & legal, were sold for pennies, in drugstores, NOBODY knew just how addictive many of them were.
Ditto for the patent meds, that you sneer at; the makers and hawkers of those things ( some of which latter turned into very profitable, legal, products, which were sold for many decades and turned many an innocent into alcoholics and.or drug addicts; not to mention how many were killed, by using them )were not doing anything illegal, nor were they an more knowledgeable about how to cook up "cures", than the average person, you so want to be able to grow and make meds all on their own today are.
When Laudanum was legal and not expensive at all ! Baby farmers ( which is what women who ran private day and long term baby caring services, out of their own homes...especially in the UK ) used to rub laudanum on baby's gum to quiet them when they were teething ( as did many a nanny, nurse, and plain old mother, back when )and/or just to make them sleep/keep them in a stupor, hence quiet. Many babies were killed that way!
Also, back at the turn of the 19th into the 20th century, high class demimondaines took laudanum in fake suicide attempts, to get their ex-loves/money tickets back. Some died, instead.
Then there's the old, what some have called "kitchen witch" cures, that are also called "old wives' tales", but many of them work, aren't dangerous, don't use dangerous substances, can't do any harm, and they work! I'm all for that; however, it's an "art" that is dying out.
Digitalis is made from the foxglove plant and is used to treat people with heart conditions. Too much taken and even the best made medicine is toxic and yet, you want the average Joe Schmoe to grow and make it to treat someone who, just might be suffering from really bad GERD and/or has a hiatal hernia.
Or do you just want people to make their own opium, heroin, etc. ? *snicker*
HOW CAN YOU BE SO DAMNED STUPID, IS THE BETTER QUERY!
Excellent posts by the way. Completely agree.