From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<. One thing I
do want to say here is that gun crime may have not been
a problem pre-1920, but heroin abuse was, why was it
banned in the first place? Why did the Chinese go to
war to stop it being imported?>
If I recall my agricultural and medicinal chemistry course unit correctly,
heroin was developed much later (40s?) to be a more effective analgesic -
and with the intention of being less addictive - than morphine....oops.
Opium was what the chinese were trying to restrict.
Tim (still pedantic)
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Heroin nowadays is extremely pure stuff. I don't know
how it compares with simple opium or the 1940s stuff, but
it can be smoked and so was opium.
Steve.
Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org
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