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For those in favor of legalizing drugs, it's important to know history. Those who do not know history...something...something...

Statue of Commissioner Lin in NYC.

1 posted on 06/26/2017 4:43:36 PM PDT by Antoninus
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Bring back the death penalty for drug dealers.


2 posted on 06/26/2017 4:46:45 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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Boxer rebellion and the Delano’s


3 posted on 06/26/2017 4:47:30 PM PDT by mosesdapoet (Mosesdapoet aka L.J.Keslinl)
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Occasionally I get into arguments with people who think drugs should be legalized. I have long pointed to the consequences of losing the Drug War in China, but invariably I get back a response that "America is not China", implying that somehow culture will protect us from a physiological addiction.

Humans are humans, and what destroyed China can also destroy anyone else foolish enough to attempt it.

5 posted on 06/26/2017 4:52:30 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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Weed is not opium.


10 posted on 06/26/2017 5:12:55 PM PDT by ichabod1 (Smoke does not mean fire when someone threw a smoke grenade.)
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> Unfortunately, at the heart of the issue were the merchants of a major foreign power — Great Britain. In order to balance out their trade deficit with China, the British began exporting opium into Chinese ports in large quantities. <

A friend of mine, a history buff, once said that the English upper class was the most evil group in all of history. I’d argue argue against the “most” designation. Consider Hitler’s Nazis and Stalin’s commissars, for example.

Nevertheless, my friend did have a point.


16 posted on 06/26/2017 5:22:17 PM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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So you are advocating that the compassionate thing to do for drug users is just to kill them like they did in China?

Yeah, just kill them all, don’t bother with rehab, that will solve the problem. /sarcasm

I have family members saved from addiction and I don’t agree with your solution.


17 posted on 06/26/2017 5:26:58 PM PDT by webstersII
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I know the history.

And there is still not a single shred of Constitutional authority for the Feds to tell adults what they can or can not put into their own bodies. None.

L


18 posted on 06/26/2017 5:27:30 PM PDT by Lurker (America burned the witch.)
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History channel just ran a 4 part series on how these killer drugs were brought to the USA via CIA to fund their covert activities and how Presidents, congress just ignored it. Flew then crap from Laos during Nam via Air America. 1-2 soldiers OD’D daily, and how LSD was introduced into USA, spreading rapidly in black communities, Dems demanded LONG prison terms to break up the black family unit.

http://www.history.com/shows/americas-war-on-drugs

SIMPLE explanation, as I’m typing with 1 finger, R. hand is in a tight cast following hand surgery.


43 posted on 06/27/2017 6:44:41 AM PDT by GailA (Ret. SCPO wife: suck it up Buttercups it's President Donald Trump! DRAIN THE SWAMP)
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