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A More Historical View of the War on Drugs
America’s Drug War, Revealed
Posted from revealnews.org
Drugs
Substance Use
Pharmaceuticals
American History
Culture
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The war has been fought for much longer than that. The government tried to purify medicines. Then they tried to tax addiction enough to reduce it. Half-measures failed and epidemics ensued.
http://www.druglibrary.org/Schaffer/history/e1910/harrisonact.htm
http://www.druglibrary.org/Schaffer/history/e1910/harrisonact.htm
Harrison Narcotics Tax Act, 1914 - Full Text
Woodrow Wilson, President; Thomas R. Marshall, Vice-President; James P. Clarke, President of the Senate pro tempore; Claude A. Swanson, Acting President of the Senate pro tempore, December 21 to 23, 29 to 31, 1914, and January 2, 1915; Nathan P. Bryan, Acting President of the Senate pro tempore, January 22, 1915; Champ Clark, Speaker of the House of Representatives
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Given the nature of humans, I am not sure we will ever win this war. Look at heroin, we should have learned, but it's back
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