[Happy Rain]

Heroin addicts,if affluent and thus assured of a clean and easily acquired “product” can live long and healthy lives as the drug posseses no true toxic properties other than the addiction itself.
But the opiates,like THC,often makes the users too content and thus uninterested in industrious pursuits so they tend to become entitlement junkies and thus solid liberal Democrat voters.

Reasons enough to make drug crimes capital offenses don't you think?

[metesky]

THC is the active chemical in weed, nowhere near an opiate.

But nice attempt at thread highjacking, spud.

[danielmryan]

But the opiates,like THC,often makes the users too content and thus uninterested in industrious pursuits so they tend to become entitlement junkies and thus solid liberal Democrat voters.

There you go: in the nineteenth century, there were no entitlments to speak of - only private charity and, at most, city payments. Anyone ending up "uninterested in industrial pursuits" either had to go to the frontier or would be set straight fairly quickly.

Reasons enough to make drug crimes capital offenses don't you think?

By deporting 'em to Cuba?

[goseminoles]

“But the opiates,like THC,often makes the users too content and thus uninterested in industrious pursuits so they tend to become entitlement junkies and thus solid liberal Democrat voters.”

Huh? Alcohol and tobacco kill more people than all drugs combined?

[weezel]

Heroin is an opiate.

Or did I misunderstand your post?