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Wait, are you saying that people got so wasted they decided that prohibition was a good idea? LOL

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Originally posted by CCVP CCVP wrote:

Originally posted by Slartibartfast Slartibartfast wrote:

Originally posted by CCVP CCVP wrote:

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The ultimate insanity was the illlegalization of hemp, I mean, what the hell were they smoking?






 

Possibly crack or cocaine. Congressmen do have a higher rate of cocaine-related drug use per capta than the rest of the population.
I'm sorry no points or cash for that answer.  We're talking the 1930's in the case of this country.  Tobacco was the smoking drug of choice back then. LOLTrivia: one of our slang terms for marijuana is wacky tobaccy. Tongue



 

Up untill the general drug prohibition (alcohol and other stuff) of the 20's, cocaine was sold on pharmacies as some kind of tonic. Confused Maybe they just had too much tonic, right? LOL


Wasn't cocaine an original ingredient in Coca Cola?
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It was.  A lot of outlawed drugs were available "over the counter".  
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Points: 7971 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 14 2010 at 10:27
Originally posted by Slartibartfast Slartibartfast wrote:

Wait, are you saying that people got so wasted they decided that prohibition was a good idea? LOL


It did happen during the Depression, so yes. Iimagine that one day the guys just partyed so hard that they came with that age old drunken speech: "I swear never to do X again". And then they passed the law. LOL

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Originally posted by CCVP CCVP wrote:

Originally posted by Slartibartfast Slartibartfast wrote:

Originally posted by CCVP CCVP wrote:

Originally posted by Slartibartfast Slartibartfast wrote:

The ultimate insanity was the illlegalization of hemp, I mean, what the hell were they smoking?
 
Possibly crack or cocaine. Congressmen do have a higher rate of cocaine-related drug use per capta than the rest of the population.
I'm sorry no points or cash for that answer.  We're talking the 1930's in the case of this country.  Tobacco was the smoking drug of choice back then. LOLTrivia: one of our slang terms for marijuana is wacky tobaccy. Tongue
 
Up untill the general drug prohibition (alcohol and other stuff) of the 20's, cocaine was sold on pharmacies as some kind of tonic. Confused Maybe they just had too much tonic, right? LOL


Wasn't cocaine an original ingredient in Coca Cola?


AFAIK, no. The thing that they use is the kola nut, but Coca Cola has been hitorically inclined to pick bad names.

PS: I mean the soda, not the medicine. I don't know about the medice's ingredients.


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I could be mistaken but though the Kola nut was used so was cocaine. LOL
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Pemberton called for five ounces of coca leaf per gallon of syrup, a significant dose; in 1891, Candler claimed his formula (altered extensively from Pemberton's original) contained only a tenth of this amount. Coca-Cola did once contain an estimated nine milligrams of cocaine per glass, but in 1903 it was removed.[30] Coca-Cola still contains coca flavoring.

After 1904, instead of using fresh leaves, Coca-Cola started using "spent" leaves — the leftovers of the cocaine-extraction process with cocaine trace levels left over at a molecular level.[31] To this day, Coca-Cola uses as an ingredient a cocaine-free coca leaf extract prepared at a Stepan Company plant in Maywood, New Jersey.

In the United States, Stepan Company is the only manufacturing plant authorized by the Federal Government to import and process the coca plant,[32] which it obtains mainly from Peru and, to a lesser extent, Bolivia. Besides producing the coca flavoring agent for Coca-Cola, Stepan Company extracts cocaine from the coca leaves, which it sells to Mallinckrodt, a St. Louis, Missouri pharmaceutical manufacturer that is the only company in the United States licensed to purify cocaine for medicinal use.[33]
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Wikipedia to the rescue!

If you scroll past the first couple top rated comments you can see why I really don't like stoners.
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To be fair, I always figured stoners would be cool and chill.
Of course some are, but from my experience the fairly good majority of them are pretty big douchebags
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Yes, no, yes, no, ffffffff, yes, no....
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Try some cocaine drops..

If they don't work,
try Bayer's Heroin pills.


Cali ready for legal Herb?
Latest polls shows Yes is ahead 47-38

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Yes. I have many friends who smoke EVERY DAY. They're going to be going into graphic design and making $30K or thereabouts going in, I believe. And they get work done.

Everything I try to take into account on pot comes from 1st and 3rd-person experience. I know a lot of drug users, and marijuana alone has discernibly harmed NO ONE WHATSOEVER.

100% legalization for everyone over 18. Any amount. Maybe not near schools or in government buildings.

The decision to legalize might be harder to make if pot were not totally harmless.

And having ridden in cars with people stoned at the wheel, I can tell you that while people act differently on pot, anyone on the phone, texting, brushing their hair, and listening to music obnoxiously loud are loads more dangerous than an attentive pothead at the wheel. In my experience.
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Points: 1509 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 23 2010 at 20:28
Originally posted by Slartibartfast Slartibartfast wrote:



Try some cocaine drops..

If they don't work,
try Bayer's Heroin pills.


Cali ready for legal Herb?
Latest polls shows Yes is ahead 47-38

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Some things never change, Bayer is a Rothchild company. Ha ha, they are still in the drug business and they even peddle the same products but more covertly now a days. Remember, the illegal drug business pays way more than legal drug business does.
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Originally posted by JJLehto JJLehto wrote:

To be fair, I always figured stoners would be cool and chill.
Of course some are, but from my experience the fairly good majority of them are pretty big douchebags


We're all different and some people, even high, will always remain douches...Ouch
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In addition to marijuana, I also support legalization of (at least) natural psychedelics, such as mushrooms and peyote. And I suppose it's scratching up against the wrong side of the site rules to suggest it, but most people should try a psychedelic at some point in their lives.
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Originally posted by stonebeard stonebeard wrote:

Yes. I have many friends who smoke EVERY DAY. They're going to be going into graphic design and making $30K or thereabouts going in, I believe. And they get work done.

Everything I try to take into account on pot comes from 1st and 3rd-person experience. I know a lot of drug users, and marijuana alone has discernibly harmed NO ONE WHATSOEVER.

100% legalization for everyone over 18. Any amount. Maybe not near schools or in government buildings.

The decision to legalize might be harder to make if pot were not totally harmless.

And having ridden in cars with people stoned at the wheel, I can tell you that while people act differently on pot, anyone on the phone, texting, brushing their hair, and listening to music obnoxiously loud are loads more dangerous than an attentive pothead at the wheel. In my experience.

Having 1st and 3rd-person experiences with it as well, I agree with everything stoney said.
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Another funny one or two because after all this is a thread about pot:




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Originally posted by horsewithteeth11 horsewithteeth11 wrote:

Originally posted by stonebeard stonebeard wrote:

Yes. I have many friends who smoke EVERY DAY. They're going to be going into graphic design and making $30K or thereabouts going in, I believe. And they get work done.

Everything I try to take into account on pot comes from 1st and 3rd-person experience. I know a lot of drug users, and marijuana alone has discernibly harmed NO ONE WHATSOEVER.

100% legalization for everyone over 18. Any amount. Maybe not near schools or in government buildings.

The decision to legalize might be harder to make if pot were not totally harmless.

And having ridden in cars with people stoned at the wheel, I can tell you that while people act differently on pot, anyone on the phone, texting, brushing their hair, and listening to music obnoxiously loud are loads more dangerous than an attentive pothead at the wheel. In my experience.

Having 1st and 3rd-person experiences with it as well, I agree with everything stoney said.


I suppose I'll third that.
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Yes, it should be legal, and not only on my country but in the USA too, why? because Im sick of all the killing and the inocent people who get killed in the street in the cross fire because the drug cartels are disputing the pass to cross the drugs to the United States, creating terror in the nort of México and the crappy "intent" of the mexican goverment to "fight"narcotrafic.

30,000 dead people since the goverment declare war to drugs 4 years ago, more than two thousand of them was inocent people. And the drug dealers? well, they sometimes capture some big boss of the cartels, but in no more than an hour there is already a new one ruling the cartel, the corrupt police and politics.

I hope it get the legalization in California, that will be a good relief here.
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Something to think about.  When we had alcohol prohibition it gave rise to mobsters.  When it was re legalized, the mobsters were still there and just found other illicit businesses to focus on.  While I support the legalization of drugs, we'll need to be prepared to deal with the unintended consequences.
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