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Originally Posted by Phogg
Only to an extremely limited extent. The drug war continues ONLY because opulently wealthy western societies provide addicts with guaranteed medical care. Without that, periods of heavy societal drug use are peremptorily ended by mas death due to outright overdose and weakened immune systems - such as seen in the US several times in the 19th century.
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Huh?!! Where did you get this? Not to turn this into a drug policy thread, but do you really expect, that the 50% of the American population, who have used marijuana, would be six feet under by now, if it wasn't for Medicare?
Until the prohibition-prone 20th century, the drug cartels in the Americas didn't shoot or behead their competition, but advertised and paid taxes. For some examples, see this:
http://wings.buffalo.edu/aru/preprohibition.htm
BTW, if you want to see an example of the health benefits of opium smoking, the Heidelberg student with the pipe, on the right, is me....
