[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >In a message dated 5/8/2007 6:54:00 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, >[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >"Everything not prohibited is mandatory!" The only reason drugs were >made illegal in the US is because good old J Edgar Hoover blackmailed >them into making them illegal so he would not have to disband the FBI >when prohibition was ended. Orwell had no imagination. > > >========== >Think that's it? I've often wondered by whom and when some drugs were made >illegal. Since many like the cocaine in coke, opium in laudanum, etc. were >legal for a long, long time. > >Marnie aka Doe > >
The banning of Marijuana is at least indirectly related to racism (it was seen as a 'Negro Vice' in the first half of the 20th century). Some are still legal from prescription sources (cocaine is used occasionally for medicine, Morphine is actually made from opium). -Adam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
