does anyone know how the drug movement started and when what occured how done?
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One day thousands of years ago Gronk was ambling through the brush, he spied a little plant, plucked it and ate it. Four delightful hours later he come back to reality, he said "Gronk like, Gronk want more" and so it began.....
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Hello,\n\nWhat do you mean deal with them? Our government has been dealing drugs on our American streets since the 1960s.\n\nHere, read about what our CIA has been doing. How our own government is degrading our soceity through illegal drugs.\n\nHope this helps you......................................................   : - O
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I think pot usage was wider spread back then before the government dug in with all the anti-drug campaigning and subsidies to law enforcement.  The taboo of it has been softened too.  Coke was off the hook back then, really just getting started...but I don't think it's any worse than today, considering how strong the growing darker forces of the Columbian Drug Cartel have become.  So, all-in-all, the same...basing that on information from the media and the occasional creepy book or two covering the subject from Barnes & Noble....
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They started on anphetamines when they did their first tour in Hamburg Germany. By 1966 they were regularly experimenting with LSD. John was using heroin and cocaine.\n ("Fixing a hole" from Sgt. Pepper). The US govt. was trying to deport John because of his drug use. George arrested (in his home), and Paul (at Tokyo airport), were both busted for pot. Ringo reportedly lost his job as conductor on "Shining Time Station" because of drug/alcohol abuse. \n   John went through the bitch program administered by Yoko and cleaned up, Paul and Linda turned health nuts and cleaned up. Don't know about Ringo. George was still toking for "medicinal purposes" when he died.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recreational_drug
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When Chinese immigrants came to California in the 1850s to work in gold mines and then on the railroads, they brought opium smoking with them. It would be another twenty years before the "sporting" classes--gamblers, prostitutes, actors--began to join them.\n\nAs more and more Americans patronized opium dens and became addicted, communities responded with alarm and concern, especially when women and young people were among the curious. Cities and then states began passing anti-drug laws. Opium use spread steadily east, until by the 1890s, opium dens were commonplace in American life.\n\nAt a time when medicine was relatively primitive, doctors and patients gratefully embraced the array of opiates like morphine, laudanum (alcohol suffused with opium), paregoric (alcohol, opium, and camphor), and codeine. These drugs were easily obtained, and there was great enthusiasm and casual use. The widespread adoption of the hypodermic syringe made for faster more potent delivery of morphine. As one turn-of-the-century morphine addict bemoaned, "At first, habit only binds us with silken threads, but alas! these threads finally change to links of strongest steel."\n\nOnce the extremely debilitating power of addicting drugs was recognized, many American cities and states--starting with San Francisco in 1875--began passing anti-drug laws. In 1906, the Pure Food & Drug Act forced the patent medicine industry to list on the label the presence of certain dangerous drugs such as alcohol, opiates, cocaine, and cannabis
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Started long before Colombia was the Cocaine Capital.  La Violencia started back in the '40s, when the two main political parties, Liberals and Conservatives basically started a civil war, killing 150,000 to 300,000 people in the process.  From that you get the FARC (pseudo-Marxist guerrillas) who now hold the record as the most prolific users of landmines.  They, in turn, help spawn paramilitaries like the AUC (which claim to be "self-defense" groups).  Others like M-19 and ELN were/are more ideological leftist groups.  Add to that the explosion of drug production and the violent drug cartels that comes with it, and the subsequent collusion/collaboration between drug cartels and illegal armed groups to the point that today they are one and the same.  Throw the US's Plan Colombia into the mix just to spice things up.  \n\nThat's one part, and what lots of people consider to be the main part of the problems.  But the violence masks the other problems.  Colombia has one of the highest levels of income disparity in the world (very rich rich and very poor poor).  Millions are displaced by the violence and take up residence in slums.   Large companies (many foreign owned) assassinate union leaders under the guise of the war, but really they are completely separate.  Impunity for crimes committed is rampant.  Corruption is worse.  Drugs are one of the major contributors to GDP.  It goes on and on.
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Not much. This isn't a really an answer but prohibition on alcohol in the 1920's didn't work. As long as there a demand\nfor drugs and alcohol there will always be a way to find it legal or not. I lived in Holland and Marijuana was legal. A lot of other drugs were legal. The crime rate was VERY low.\nYou could go to your pharmacist and get heroin by prescription. This country still has a moral problem viewing drug addiction as a crime rather than a disease. Like alcoholism. It's harder to quit and does more damage than heroin addiction. This country needs to wake up and realize that if people want help it is there for them . If they want their disease to progress that is yup to them also.\nI hope I helped
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Try this website\n\n\nhttp://www.drugid.info/
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I think they may have been temporarily closed down. I saw a big thing on the news, but I'm not sure if it was them. Basically , they had huge warehouses full of controlled medications like Xanax and Vicodin without proprer documentation. They got raided by the Feds who siezed a ton of meds and pulled their license. Again, I think it was them was but I'm not 100% sure.
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In 1939 a political party (to be identified later) funded by Unions and mobsters, had to replace the income lost with the end of prohibition. Devious! A natural product that cost virtually nothing to produce multiplies in value a thousand fold. Mobsters see unions, are back in business, with this prohibition the government has made a new class of criminal to exploit and profit from. And industries competing with hemp by products profiting as well, the only true victim were, then and are now…The Citizen. As a side note in 1900 that same political party claimed another natural plant made the “blacks” unruly and UN manageable…and they outlawed cocaine. Isn’t it interesting how those same political “families” still in politics today, made their family money as bootleggers and drug runners? If that makes you think of Kennedy’s and the Democratic Party you would be correct on both counts.
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We did do things like this until the democrats took over.  Once Clinton was in office, he put an end to these programs.  The reason is simple, he is a communist sympathizer and the communists in south american get most of their money from the drug trade.  Since that time, they have taken over much of south america.  If Bush wasn't such a weak president with no support for conservative issues, he would have re-instituted those programs.  He didn't. The result is the communist alliance of Venezuela, Cuba and Bolivia.  They are allying themselves with Iran in a clearly hostile manner and are positioning themselves to take over Mexican politics.  All funded with drug money.
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http://www.ask.com/web?q=mexican+drug+laws%3F&qsrc=0&o=0&l=dir&sugreqs=0
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1.They only develop things for the drug trade.  The road that the drug runners use is a brand new four lane super highway.  All the other roads are dirt.\n2.The drug trade is illegal, so if your in it, your breaking all sorts of laws both international and lots of countries.  And once you break a law all the time it's a slippery slope to break any law.\n3.They don't bother doing anything else....they can make tons on the drugs, easily, so why bother with other things.
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WHAT DRUGS???? Furthermore, the relationships between key institutions, players and the Bushes themselves suggest that under a George "W" administration the Bush family and its allies may well be able, using Brown and Root as the operational interface, to control the drug trade all the way from Medellin to Moscow.\n\nOriginally formed as a heavy construction company to build dams, Brown and Root grew its operations via shrewd political contributions to Senate candidate Lyndon Johnson in 1948. Expanding into the building of oil platforms, military bases, ports, nuclear facilities, harbors and tunnels, Brown and Root virtually underwrote LBJ's political career. It prospered as a result, making billions on U.S. Government contracts during the Vietnam War. The "Austin Chronicle" in an August 28 Op-ed piece entitled "The Candidate From Brown and Root" labels Republican Cheney as the political dispenser of Brown and Root's largesse.  According to political campaign records, during Cheney's five year tenure at Halliburton the company's political contributions more than doubled to $1.2 million. Not surprisingly, most of that money went to Republican candidates.
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check out www.drugdigest.org
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No, it didn't go through.  Here is the article from Yahoo News from an hour or two ago:\n\nVicente Fox will not sign widely criticized narcotics legislation until Congress removes parts of the law that decriminalize the possession of small amounts of drugs, his office said on Wednesday. \n \nThe president's office said the law would be sent back to Congress for revision.\n\n"In our country the possession of drugs and their consumption are, and will continue to be, crimes," the office said in a statement.\n\nThe approval of the legislation, passed by Congress last week, surprised Washington, which counts on Mexico's support in its war against gangs that move massive quantities of cocaine, heroin, marijuana and methamphetamines through Mexico to U.S. consumers.\n\nIt was also criticized by authorities in tourist towns who worried about a flood of thrill-seeking visitors. \n\nhttp://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060504/ts_nm/mexico_drugs_dc_3