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> Just five days after the introduction of the law, the US state department invoked the 1935 amendments to the Law of Importation and Exportation of Narcotic Dr
by dfee 8y ago
> Just five days after the introduction of the law, the US state department invoked the 1935 amendments to the Law of Importation and Exportation of Narcotic Drugs. The amendments allowed the US to establish an export embargo on narcotics like morphine and cocaine when it deemed the objectives of a country to be neither medical nor scientific.
A state has no right to manage its narcotics exports?
> Early 1930s Japan is the world’s leading cocaine producer (23.3%) followed by the United States (21.3%), Germany (15%), U.K. (9.9%), France (8.3%). [1]
[1] https://www.narconon.org/drug-information/cocaine-timeline.html https://www.narconon.org/drug-information/cocaine-timeline.h...
- jessaustin 8y agoA state has no right... What state was this? Was a vote held? A law passed? No. This was one asshole LEO, Anslinger, just like lots of other asshole LEOs before and since. The reason that religion invented hell, was so we could savor the idea of this banal excrescence burning there as the decades pass and the death toll of his evil manipulation rises.