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To: DiogenesLamp

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Until 1909 you could walk into a pharmacy and buy opiates and cocaine legally in the USA. And you could buy jars with Cocaine and Heroin labels to store the purchases.

Legally required prescriptions for ordinary drugs came about around 1948 because of Democratic pharmacist and Senator Hubert Humphrey.

And the famous soda Coca-Cola used the original formula for decades.


33 posted on 11/02/2017 1:34:53 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Brian Griffin
Until 1909 you could walk into a pharmacy and buy opiates and cocaine legally in the USA. And you could buy jars with Cocaine and Heroin labels to store the purchases.

And it was the massive increases in addictions and overdose suicides that convinced people that this condition could no longer be tolerated. That's why we banned drugs.

And the famous soda Coca-Cola used the original formula for decades.

And you don't think putting cocaine in soda was going to eventually turn out badly for the public?

42 posted on 11/02/2017 2:07:48 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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