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For fuck sake. What claptrap do you have to explain every other fucking country banning opium?
by bananacurve 13y ago
For fuck sake. What claptrap do you have to explain every other fucking country banning opium?
- seiji 13y agoWell, if 90% of your population is high and unproductive, that makes you ripe for invasion. There's a difference between fixing a problem collapsing society and targeting groups to punish them for your own gain. More at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium#Prohibition_and_conflict_in_China http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium#Prohibition_and_conflict_... and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_Wars http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_Wars and http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/heroin/etc/history.html http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/heroin/etc/his...
- Daniel_Newby 13y agoChinese-patronized opium dens were banned. Tincture of laudanum (opium rum) was still available at every drug store. The history of drug prohibition is a process of cracking down on one minority group after another in order to get votes. Opium: chinks. Marijuana: niggers. LSD: smelly hippy sluts. Methamphetamine: poor white trash/wiggers. Visible booze bottles: bums.
- riffic 13y agoThe Single Convention, pushed into the UN by American prohibitionists.
- bananacurve 13y agoAnd signed and ratified by all those poor helpless victim countries.
- riffic 13y agounder duress with the likelihood of the withdrawal of aid, trade, or unilateral sanctions. You do realize the united states is a permanent member of the security council?