Why Can’t Illegal Drugs Be Quantified Into Safe and Moderate Amounts for Use?
Question by Mark: Why can’t illegal drugs be quantified into safe and moderate amounts for use?
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Answer by Murzy
it could be taxed
lower the crime rate
drug cartels/king pins would vanish
it could be controlled by prescription
they would be cheaper
Answer by onlymatch4u
They are. That’s what drug companies do. Heroin was imported into the United States shortly after it was invented. The sales pitch that created an instant market to American doctors and their morphine-addicted patients was that heroin was a “safe, non-addictive” substitute for morphine. Hence, the heroin addict was born and has been present in American culture ever since. In a chillingly similar manner, the opiate Oxycontin was approved in recent years as another “safe, non-addictive” painkiller to replace traditional opiates, with similarly tragic results.
From the late 1800’s to the early 1900’s, the reputable drug companies of the day began manufacturing over-the-counter drug kits. These kits contained a glass-barreled hypodermic needle and vials of opiates (morphine or heroin) and/or cocaine packaged neatly in attractive engraved tin cases. Laudanum (opium in an alcohol base) was also a very popular elixir that was used to treat a variety of ills. Laudanum was administered to kids and adults alike as freely as aspirin is used today.
There were, of course, marketing and advertising campaigns launched by the drug companies producing such products that touted the narcotics as the cure for all types of physical and mental aliments, ranging from alcohol withdrawal to cancer, depression, sluggishness, coughs, colds, tuberculosis, and even old age. Most of the elixirs pitched by the old “snake oil salesmen” in their medicine shows contained one or more of these very much mainstream narcotics in their mix. What is so very interesting is that these elixirs were not concocted by the medicine men, but by drug companies, like Lloyd Manufacturing Co., National Vaporizer Co., and the Bayer Pharmaceutical Products that were allowing them to be promoted.
Cocaine is an illegal drug, but was an ingredient in Coca Cola for many years. Drug companies have changed one ligamer and labeled it Ritalin. If you look at the side effects of cocaine and Ritalin, you will see they are exactly the same thing.
Marijuana is easily grown in a person’s back yard, so drug companies oppose it becoming legal because they can’t make money selling it. Drug companies have huge bags of money because they are making 5 times the profit of any other corporation in America today. A lot of this money goes to politicians to promote their agenda. It’s why drug companies are making huge amounts of money from the so called Health Care law that is promoting really bad bargain basement technologies as vaccines that are damaging people all over America.
The primary reason any drug is illegal is because it is easy to produce, easy to distribute, and there is NO money in it for drug companies. Making them illegal keeps the price high and protects the legal drug market. There are some legal drugs the drug companies sell that gives them profits of 500,000%. Why would they want to sell a drug that anyone can grow in their back yard?
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