Considering we're a society in which the first question people ask someone who just came from the doctor is "Did they give you the good stuff" Americans don't really have any room to talk about opiates.

Fark's sake, long as we're in Afghanistan why not just buy up the damn opium crop ourselves? It actually does have use as a painkiller, after all. Long as the farmers sell only to us, we're cool. If not, well...

Gulper Eel:Fark's sake, long as we're in Afghanistan why not just buy up the damn opium crop ourselves? It actually does have use as a painkiller, after all. Long as the farmers sell only to us, we're cool. If not, well...

doglover:Gulper Eel: Fark's sake, long as we're in Afghanistan why not just buy up the damn opium crop ourselves? It actually does have use as a painkiller, after all. Long as the farmers sell only to us, we're cool. If not, well...

Because drugs are bad. Unless they're amphetamines.

Yes, but don't let the doctors know that you drink wine or smoke pot on occasion; just let them stock you up with xanax, vicodan, flexoril and such. You must remain in their control.

Gulper Eel:Fark's sake, long as we're in Afghanistan why not just buy up the damn opium crop ourselves? It actually does have use as a painkiller, after all. Long as the farmers sell only to us, we're cool. If not, well...

Hey stop making sense!

We might as well buy it up from them. "Hey you sell to your Uncle Sam. It be a shame for a strayincendiary to hit that nice field of yours."

AbbeySomeone:doglover: Gulper Eel: Fark's sake, long as we're in Afghanistan why not just buy up the damn opium crop ourselves? It actually does have use as a painkiller, after all. Long as the farmers sell only to us, we're cool. If not, well...

Because drugs are bad. Unless they're amphetamines.

Yes, but don't let the doctors know that you drink wine or smoke pot on occasion; just let them stock you up with xanax, vicodan, flexoril and such. You must remain in their control.

There are quite a few doctors who would not mind being legally allowed to prescribe weed in cases where it might be beneficial (look at CA and CO among others), if it were not illegal.

I do not know if Big Pharma is really "conspiring" with anyone to keep weed etc. illegal but they do have economic interests to lobby against legalization and I'm sure there have been instances where they have done just that (too lazy to look this up). In any case it is not really the US medical establishment who is stinking things up here.

Aarontology:Considering we're a society in which the first question people ask someone who just came from the doctor is "Did they give you the good stuff" Americans don't really have any room to talk about opiates.

Crotchrocket Slim:AbbeySomeone: doglover: Gulper Eel: Fark's sake, long as we're in Afghanistan why not just buy up the damn opium crop ourselves? It actually does have use as a painkiller, after all. Long as the farmers sell only to us, we're cool. If not, well...

Because drugs are bad. Unless they're amphetamines.

Yes, but don't let the doctors know that you drink wine or smoke pot on occasion; just let them stock you up with xanax, vicodan, flexoril and such. You must remain in their control.

There are quite a few doctors who would not mind being legally allowed to prescribe weed in cases where it might be beneficial (look at CA and CO among others), if it were not illegal.

I do not know if Big Pharma is really "conspiring" with anyone to keep weed etc. illegal but they do have economic interests to lobby against legalization and I'm sure there have been instances where they have done just that (too lazy to look this up). In any case it is not really the US medical establishment who is stinking things up here.

I live in Seattle so your point is something....I can buy weed off Craigslist.

Gulper Eel:Fark's sake, long as we're in Afghanistan why not just buy up the damn opium crop ourselves? It actually does have use as a painkiller, after all. Long as the farmers sell only to us, we're cool. If not, well...

IIRC, we (the US and Europe) did pretty much that with Turkey after WW1.

fireclown:Gulper Eel: Fark's sake, long as we're in Afghanistan why not just buy up the damn opium crop ourselves? It actually does have use as a painkiller, after all. Long as the farmers sell only to us, we're cool. If not, well...

IIRC, we (the US and Europe) did pretty much that with Turkey after WW1.

Opium has run the World for centuries.Global Warming, New Order Nannys nor America's misguided Partisanship has changed that.

I will never understand the mentality behind the support for the war on drugs.

Freedom to make bad investments and die slowly on the street with no food or medicine? Don't spend a dime on that, that's personal accountability.Freedom to take addictive drugs? Oh we have to spend BILLIONS a year to stop that.