Why is it that some drugs are illegal and others aren't? How does the government decide which drugs require prescriptions, and which ones can be sold over the counter?
Beginning in 1970, and to this day, this has been the job of two federal departments, the Dept. of Justice and the Dept. of Health and Human Services (which includes the FDA).
They place all known drugs in categories, called schedules, numbering 1 (strict control) thru 5 (lax control). The criteria for where a drug is placed are:
Medical Use
Potential Abuse
Potential Addiction
They are also constantly changing policies to keep up with all the new drugs being introduced into the black market.
A few schedule 1 drugs (I use the common street name when available):
GHB
Marihuana (Including hashish and hashish oil)
Heroin
DMT
Ecstasy
Psilocybin (the psychoactive agent found in some mushrooms)
LSD
Mescaline (The psychoactive agent found in Peyote)
All these drugs were placed here by our government because they claim that they all have:
No medical value whatsoever
Highest potential for abuse
Highest potential for addiction
I have to call bullshit on that.
Most of the drugs on this list (especially the psychedelic ones) have the lowest addiction rates of all drugs. Any addiction caused by lsd or shrooms, weed or dmt is purely psychological. It is the PEOPLE taking the drugs, not the drugs themselves.
Another example of idiots fucking it up for the rest of us.
Cocaine, which is FAR more addicting than weed or acid, is a schedule 2 drug, simply because some doctors still use it as an anesthetic for face surgery. Also they have made a mixture of coke and alcohol that they rub on kids arms so they don't feel the prick of needles as much.
BAH! Cannabis has much more potential as a medical cure all drug then any amount of coke does. Even PCP and Amphetamines (from which we get meth) are schedule 2 drugs!
And all the way down at schedule 4 (low abuse, low addiction, medical value) we find the Benzodiazepines (xanex, valium), which kill almost as many Americans a year as alcohol and tobacco...
The only thing this list tells me is that the government is not looking out for my well being.
Anywho, the war on drugs.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Sorry, that line always makes me laugh...
The real war on drugs is not a war on gangs and militants and drug cartels and warlords and blah blah blah...
The REAL war on drugs is a racist fueled propaganda pig fest!
:P
Back in the early 20th century, America was prospering. But the Puritans were on the march. Their holy crusade was to have alcohol abolished in America. They succeeded, and for awhile, alcohol was punished as severely as weed is today, while the pot smokes, opium smokers, and cocaine snorters kept on truckin'. Unfortunately taking booze from Americans is like taking a bottle from a hungry baby. And boy did we cry! The government had to employ several thousand extra police officers just to combat the rise of organized crime and alcohol smuggling. They lost that war pretty quick, and alcohol was re-legalized.
(A neat side note: Even today, because of prohibition, the Mafia still controls liquor sales in some states)
The decriminalization of booze left a lot of police officers without a job. And this was the depression era. Around this time, all the whities in congress were noticing how even though jobs were scarce the Chinese had no trouble keeping their jobs.
What was their secret? Opium of course. The opium they smoked allowed them to do even the most menial tasks for hours on end, and at the time, there was no such thing as fair wage, so they worked as many hours as they could.
White America did not like to see their jobs being taking by these people, and so they decided to do something about it. Harry J. Anslinger (see Satan) was able to convince Congress, with the help of his uncle Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon, to form the FBNDD (Federal Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs). They simply re-hired all those out of work Prohibition officers and then quickly outlawed the use, possession, sale, and import of opium.
They didn't stop there. They saw how swiftly racism stirred white America, so they used the same tactics on Blacks and cocaine. They ran news stories all across the country on the violence and rape that blacks performed under the influence of coke. They claimed that a black man of coke was as strong as 5 police officers. And so, in the same fashion, cocaine was criminalized too.
Marihuana was next....
By the way in case you're wondering why I spell it with an H it's because before Reefer Madness it was always spelled that way. It was William Randolph Hearst (the newspaper baron) who had his papers print it with a J (the Mexican spelling) to stir more racism in people.
Anyways Anslinger had it out for weed. He talked at great length of how he loathed Black Jazz musicians and dreamed of imprisoning them all. He personally traveled the country, speaking to grade school children, telling them of the dangers of weed. All his claims were false, but it didn't matter, in 1937, the Marihuana Tax Act became official, ending sale and possession, and killing the entire hemp industry in America.
And now a moment of silence for poor Mary Jane...
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Today, groups like D.A.R.E. and PDA (Partnership for a Drug free America) still use the same propaganda that was used during both Reefer Madness’s (1930's and 1970's) and dated research done in the 70's that was thrown out by medical review boards.
So now you know: The war on drugs is really a war on non-whites.
Bleh!
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