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Originally Posted by Sonist
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....  |
Pot, not so much. Meth and crack - absolutely.
And no I was not in any way referring to Medicare or Medicaid alone.
Perhaps if you have never lived in poor parts of the world you are unaware that in many places you get no medical care without cash in advance period. Once the west lacked the wealth to be any different. In the US, if you go to an emergency room they generally treat you.