frankb wrote:
Well Fred reading your posts about cocaine makes me wonder why it is illegal and why cigs and alcohol aren't.
Anyways for what it is worth I really cannot see what buisness it is of mine if people want to indulge in any of them always provided the only person put at risk of the indulgence is the person consuming the particular substance.
Quite easy Frank Cocaine heroin etc... were made illegal after a multi country meeting on drug controls in the early 1920's (I think it was), and alcohol and tobacco was not on the agenda because at that time the trade in the other drugs was not controlled by multi millionare companies and countries got no tax from, I bet if the same meetings were held now things would be quite different.
All the 'natural' Narcotics have been around for centuries and both heroin and Cocaine were freely available and legal for a long long time in this country.
Some of you are wrongly thinking Im advocating Cocaine use I'm just giving an alternative argument than the 'hang em high' brigade also a lot of you are mixing Cocaine use/abuse with Crack-cocaine use/abuse which is a totally different 'animal' and is highly dangerous and addictive - it is said that Crack-cocaine addiction can be 'caught' by just one try of the substance, and is taken in a very different way than powdered Cocaine.