Hey all. I was thinking as I sometimes do, when say heroin was otc, how many people were using? How many were strung out?
I have a feeling that we have more people on the sidewalk on the stuff that back when it was legal.
Cocaine was in Coca Cola and Bayer as a company got off the ground from Coccaine. "New and improved!"
Typically, something is banned because govt wants it controlled. In this case, they would make money from sales tax, so what else? I went down the rabbit hole of the temperance movement, prohibition, and when that was rescinded, it was onto all the other feel good stuff. Wifes couldn't stand hubby out with the boys over a pint, or a joint, or a line.
With freshly voting women, this wasnt hard to achieve (way to go women, your first thing you do with voting was prohibition).
Another interesting parallel is how alcohol had poison in it, to keep guys from drinking it. It did not stop, leading to, in effect, the govt killing its own citizens. Percocet has tylenol in it to give a person liver damage, in order to not abuse it. Same with Percodan, to give you ulcers. There literally is no need for those combos. Just take a tylenol or aspirin on top. But, govt is great at creating problems for which is has a solution. More govt!
So I wonder what society would be like if all drugs would be legal? Would people still judge? I think no more than alcohol, having drinks or a drink or two per night, to being THAT guy, going to AA meetings and turning his 1 week chip regularly. So, NA would be there for those that go too far.
Not advocating this or that. Just an interesting thought (maybe its whatever is in my pills, but one can only play so much slitherio!). Curious what you all might think.
C
I have a feeling that we have more people on the sidewalk on the stuff that back when it was legal.
Cocaine was in Coca Cola and Bayer as a company got off the ground from Coccaine. "New and improved!"
Typically, something is banned because govt wants it controlled. In this case, they would make money from sales tax, so what else? I went down the rabbit hole of the temperance movement, prohibition, and when that was rescinded, it was onto all the other feel good stuff. Wifes couldn't stand hubby out with the boys over a pint, or a joint, or a line.
With freshly voting women, this wasnt hard to achieve (way to go women, your first thing you do with voting was prohibition).
Another interesting parallel is how alcohol had poison in it, to keep guys from drinking it. It did not stop, leading to, in effect, the govt killing its own citizens. Percocet has tylenol in it to give a person liver damage, in order to not abuse it. Same with Percodan, to give you ulcers. There literally is no need for those combos. Just take a tylenol or aspirin on top. But, govt is great at creating problems for which is has a solution. More govt!
So I wonder what society would be like if all drugs would be legal? Would people still judge? I think no more than alcohol, having drinks or a drink or two per night, to being THAT guy, going to AA meetings and turning his 1 week chip regularly. So, NA would be there for those that go too far.
Not advocating this or that. Just an interesting thought (maybe its whatever is in my pills, but one can only play so much slitherio!). Curious what you all might think.
C