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Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform => The Troubled Teen Industry => Topic started by: alicia1981 on October 21, 2004, 11:37:00 PM
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"illegal drugs and how they got that way" is on now. it's good!!!!!
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They used to put Cocaine in the beverage Coca Cola. Drugs like Opium were legal. What's interesting is there was less crime back then...HMMM. Maybe the billions being spent on the hopeless illegal drug war could be better spent on society and possibly there would be less crime......
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
--George Bernard Shaw, Irish-born English playwright
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One thing is certain: When you make a drug illegal you make it scarce. When you make it scarce you make it expensive. Addicts needing to finance their habit push the drug and create new addicts. That makes providing the drug very profitable. Good old free enterprise gets into the act to meet the demand, and the next thing you know the drug is still expensive, but abundant, there are many more addicts, and their numbers grow by leaps and bounds.
In the 1930s Britain started furnishing its junkies with heroin so they wouldn't create new junkies. It worked, and they got their addiction rate way down until they got an influx of opium-loving middle-easterners after WWII.