> > From: Scott Loveless <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2007/05/08 Tue PM 07:41:36 GMT > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: OT: rootbeer? > > Adam Maas wrote: > > [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 > > > > > > > I read somewhere (can't remember where right now) that drug laws in the > US actually got their start in California as a ban on either opium or > opium dens. The laws were designed to target Chinese immigrants.
The more things change...... http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070507/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/venezuela_us_drugs Excerpt: CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuela on Monday said it will not allow U.S. agents to carry out counter-drug operations in the country, accusing the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration of being a "new cartel" that aids traffickers. Justice Minister Pedro Carreno said the South American nation suspended cooperation with the agency in 2005 after determining that "they were moving a large amount of drugs." President Hugo Chavez at the time also accused the DEA of spying. "The United States with its DEA monopolizes the shipping of drugs like a cartel," Carreno told reporters. "We determined that we were evidently in the presence of a new cartel." He did not elaborate. Spokesman Brian Penn said the U.S. Embassy categorically denies the accusation and called the DEA "the leading agency combatting drug trafficking around the world." "We'd like to cooperate with Venezuela to not only increase the number of seizures in Venezuela but also to help them to prosecute narcotraffickers who are operating in Venezuelan territory. We think sharing of information can aid Venezuela in this," Penn said. Washington has repeatedly accused Venezuela of not cooperating in counter-drug efforts and says cocaine shipments are increasingly passing through the country from neighboring Colombia. ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.virginmedia.com/email Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software and scanned for spam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
