Chests of Opium Imported to China.
/johnny
Chests of Opium Imported to China.
Drug War bootlickers (a.k.a. closet socialists) arriving to spam this thread with ad homenim attacks in 3-2-1 ...
Many soldiers on both sides of the Civil War who were given morphine for their wounds became addicted to it, and this increased level of addiction continued throughout the nineteenth century and into the twentieth. In 1880, many drugs, including opium and cocaine, were legal — and, like some drugs today, seen as benign medicine not requiring a doctor’s care and oversight. Addiction skyrocketed. There were over 400,000 opium addicts in the U.S. That is twice as many per capita as there are today.
By 1900, about one American in 200 was either a cocaine or opium addict.
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So we had 400,000 opium addicts in 1880, many of whom were addicted Civil War veterans. The population of the US in 1880 was around 50M. That works out to an addiction rate of 0.8% in 1880. Now, in 1900 the addiction rate to either opium or cocaine was 1 in 200. That is an addiction rate of 0.5%.
So in 1880 there were 0.8% addicted to just opium vs 0.5% to either opium or cocaine in 1900. The DEA is telling us that addiction declined substantially between 1880 and 1900, despite these drugs being legal.
Ask your nearest middle school student what drugs they have seen or heard of being used in their school.
Then ask them how hard it is to get their hands on beer.
One is illegal and has nearly a trillion dollars a year spent to prevent its use, one is for sale on nearly every street corner.
Game, set, and match.
ENDING THE FEDERAL DRUG WAR WILL NOT LEGALIZE DRUGS.
But they work really hard at trying to make you believe it would.
This will assuredly make America a better place.....
Once legalized it will be much easier for parents to convince their kids of the destructive effects of drug use.
And the kids, ever mindful of parental warnings, will heed their advice....
Why....didn't you see John Stossle’s citation of the success in Portugal?
Never mind that he avoided citing the failures in the Netherlands and Sweden.....
The number of eighth graders who reported trying illegal drugs increased from 2009 to 2010, according to data released by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
But other statistics contained in the report "America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being 2011" are much more promising: The number of 12th graders who reported binge drinking decreased, as did the number of teens who gave birth.
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/eighth-graders-illegal-drugs-teen-births-drop/story?id=14028428
There is no such thing as an illegal drug. There are only controlled substances.
The drugs themselves are not illegal. What one does with those drugs is what is illegal.
Once the government legislates what you can't put into your body
they will then start to legislate what you must put into your body.
I'm an adult, not a child! I neither need, nor want, the government telling me what to do in every aspect of my life.
That's why there is a Ninth Amendment to the Constitution.
I look forward to any replies.
That's up to the states or the people.
/johnny
The DEA is against legalization because the DEA wants to keep their jobs.
Don't believe a word they say.
Reefer Madness wasn't an aberration, it was a model.