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by building a wall with the said goal to stop contraband drugs as his response to heroin   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfWidZH0xBs#password The "success" of this sort of policy would be to favor domestically produced bathtub "heroin" that would be likely spiked with the far more potent synthetic opiate fentanyl, in of course vastly varying potencies, unregulated thus promoting even more fatal ODs. By banning Opium and its derivatives, the market availability was shifted to the more concentrated forms of opiates as Heroin HCI, and with the price likewise artificially increased to be pricier per weight than gold, encouraged its use in the way with the greatest 'bang for the buck" of injection- also the most addictive and potentially dangerous- further exacerbated by the variable potency of such a substance in an unregulated black market of uncertain purity and adulteration perhaps with something even stronger such as fentanyl. By failing to address any of...

if the polices towards opiates are really so valid, why not then apply them to other drugs, such as nicotine?   http://www.borgenmagazine.com/opium-cultivation-rise/ https://prezi.com/dfx5tfc7mnf_/opium/ Virtually anything and everything written about the various "epidemics" of heroin and opiates or opioids treats the policy as if it were written in stone by God. Regular use of such can not be tolerated. People must be gotten off opiates, or rather off of their regular opiates and onto something longer lasting and stronger and more physically addictive. From what one would gather, this is because the regular use of their regular opiates must be associated with various sorts of diseases and/or ill effects upon health.  That staying on say pain pills or heroin is intolerable because such invariably harms health.  Perhaps as that with the excessive use of alcohol causing cirrhosis of the liver.  Or that of the regular use of Tobacco, particularly the type bred for ciga...

as embodied by such pieces of U.S. legislation as the 1906 Food & Drugs Act ; the 1914 Harrison 'Narcotics' Tax Act ; the 1937 Marijuana Tax Act ; and the 1951 Boggs Act establishing more draconian sentences  graph from page 230 of the book Licit & Licit Drugs The drug war is Tobacco cigarette market protection & promotion ; note how sales climbed relatively little following the introduction of the mass machine produced cigarettes around 1884, until the enactment of the 1906, 1914 and 1937 drug market protection scheme legislative acts. The 1906 Act would be designed to allow the USDA to claim without any basis that the chief market threat to Tobacco of dilute cocaine products were unacceptably dangerous as "adulterated", while exempting Tobacco from USDA regulation via that Act's limitation of such authority to substances listed in the U.S. Pharmacopoeia, from which Tobacco had been included until being deleted in 1905.   Such policies would elimi...