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1 posted on 06/27/2024 9:01:34 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

China is getting even for the Opium Wars.


2 posted on 06/27/2024 9:04:08 AM PDT by Tell It Right (Galatians 6:14 -- May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ...)
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“Black Lives Matter, Antifa, Transgender, and now Palestinian protestors are paid and bussed on que...”

It has been pretty well established these are bankrolled in part by George Soros, the Ford Foundation, etc.

Nobody right or left seems willing to address our domestic enemies.


4 posted on 06/27/2024 9:11:15 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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They let mules off constantly because they are not the big fish. Needs to be severe consequences for smuggling it into this country.


5 posted on 06/27/2024 9:12:23 AM PDT by pas
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This is mildly retarded. Drugs were widely available nationwide until the Harrison Act aka Drug Prohibition in 1914.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Narcotics_Tax_Act

The US was not only the biggest economy in the world by 1900, after centuries of cheap and easily available narcotics, it was arguably the most productive per capita. Today, narcotics are expensive and carry serious legal penalties, which means usage is neither common nor ubiquitous as it was before Drug Prohibition, when opium concentrate was used in cough syrup, and Coca Cola contained cocaine extract.

https://wellcomecollection.org/articles/W87wthIAACQizfa
https://web.uvic.ca/vv/student/chinatown/opium/p3.html

Do drug addicts suffer ill-effects? Absolutely. But the idea that drug availability induces societal collapse is just stupid and ahistorical.


6 posted on 06/27/2024 9:26:02 AM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room)
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If America wanted to stop the drug cabal, it could but WON’T. The American people are rather idiotic.


8 posted on 06/27/2024 9:52:41 AM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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9 posted on 06/27/2024 9:54:16 AM PDT by PMAS (Vote with your wallets, there are 80 million of us - No China made, No Amazon)
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