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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...

and USDA prosecutions with zero showing of any actual harms from the cocaine content https://books.google.com/books?id=Z_OQycfkoasC&pg=PA84&lpg=PA84&dq=cocaine+content+soft+drinks&source=bl&ots=mhN0XhP7t2&sig=Pv8LlyLyhd-tG5pQV_jTyJ-V6Tw&hl=en&sa=X&ei=-J4HVeXXMqm_sQSE5ID4CA&ved=0CEUQ6AEwBzgK#v=onepage&q=cocaine%20content%20soft%20drinks&f=false Cocaine content of beverages in milligrams per fluid ounce Wiseola        under 1 mg Celery Cola        under 1 mg Koca Nola        under 1 mg Kola Coca        5 mg Vin Mariani        6-8 mg Kola Cardinette    9 mg Maltine with Coca    9 mg Coca Cordial        30 mg Metcalf Coca Wine    32 mg Wiseola - under 1 mg per fluid ounce Celery Cola - under 1 mg per fluid ounce http://con...

A Brief History of Cocaine - Steven B. Karch pp 100-102 If our drug policies appear convoluted today, think how they must have looked to the owners of the Coca-Cola Company just after the turn of the century.  In 1911, company officials found themselves in federal court, charged with, among other things, not putting cocaine in Coca- Cola.  Popular histories of this period usually lump Coca-Cola with the [sic] other quack nostrums [sic- a nostrum is simply a medicated liquid meant to be take orally], often suggesting that the problem of cocaine abuse in America was, in some way, connected to the successes of the Coca-Cola Company.  Except for the titillation factor, the idea has little to recommend it.  Even when Coca-Cola contained cocaine, the amounts were trivial; too small to produce measurable physiological or behavioral changes.  Coca-Cola was not responsible for America's cocaine problem, but government harassment of the Atlanta soft drink maker did mark ...

How the 1906 'Pure Foods and Drug Act' practically empowered the U.S. Department of Agriculture to ban dilute cocaine, thus shifting the market of that drug to the infinitely more dangerous concentrated forms .... ... and to go further, how lying about cocaine was meant to protect markets for Tobacco.  That was evident with the 1906 Act's limiting the USDA's authority over substances in the U.S. Pharmacopoeia, from which Tobacco had been deleted in 1905, and the 1910 USDA Farmers' Bulletin article "Habit Forming Agents- Their Sale and Use a Menace to the Public Welfare" , which decried the use of Coca against Tobacco, so described as " what is commonly believed to be a comparatively harmless habit" - authored by L.F. Kebler.  Yet it was Kebler, who in 1912 testified at a U.S. House of Representatives COMMlTTEE ON lNTERSTATE AND FORElGN COMMERCE hearing on the Food and Drug Act, that " tobacco and preparations of tobacco contain arsenic an...

Cocaine, Caffeine and Nicotine are all alkaloids that serves as CNS stimulants, that are found naturally occurring in small amounts in plants ... the whole issue of dilution-concentration goes about completely ignored by drug war supporters and reformers ! http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2008/03/drug-warriors-ignore-pharmacokinetics.html http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2008/03/drug-war-promotes-drug-abuse-over-drug.html http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2011/04/harvey-wiley-father-of-drug-problem.html Cocaine used as Caffeine https://www.mercadoinka.com/Inka%20verde%20tea%20deluxe http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2008/03/drug-warriors-ignore-history-of-coca.html Caffeine used as Cocaine http://www.caffeineinformer.com/caffeine-content/caffeine-powder Pure caffeine powder can be purchased by anyone to boost the caffeine content of food or beverages. However, this product is not recommended.  Just 1 teaspoon of caffeine powder has ab...

THEY THIRST FOR COCAINE LA Times February 25, 1902 Soda Fountain Fiends Multiplying https://books.google.com/books?id=_H69qO6f438C&lpg=PA37&ots=Ivn-IsVXUs&dq=%E2%80%9CThey%20Thirst%20for%20Cocaine%3A%20Soda%20Fountain%20Fiends%20Multiplying%2C%E2%80%9D&pg=PA37#v=onepage&q=%E2%80%9CThey%20Thirst%20for%20Cocaine:%20Soda%20Fountain%20Fiends%20Multiplying,%E2%80%9D&f=false Slaves to the “Coca Cola” Habit.   [nameless] Los Angeles Physician Says it is as dangerous as any “Dope”. Soda-fountain proprietors struck a bonanza when the drink coca cola was introduced, for all of the beverages sprung on a public desiring variety and change it stands first in favor, and its popularity, instead of waning, is on the increase. That is what the men behind the marble counters in Los Angeles say.   They even go further and claim for the brown beverage qualities peculiar to those potions which make habitués or “fiends” of their drinkers. YESTERDAY’S ILLUSTRATION A well dre...

Consumption of Coca tea alleviates withdrawal syndrome from Coffee-caffeine, and Tobacco-nicotine- Have personally tried for Coffee withdrawal successfully   Recent (1980s+) research focused upon coca as substitute for concentrated forms of cocaine, rather than a substitute for caffeine and nicotine containing products https://apha.confex.com/apha/132am/techprogram/paper_92248.htm http://www.amazon.com/Handbook-Cocaine-Addictions-Teobaldo-Llosa/dp/B004B9G5U0 http://www.encod.org/info/IMG/pdf/Oral_coca_en_pdf.pdf http://www.dronet.org/sostanze/sos_pdf/cocaine21.pdf Research previously (1870s+) indicates coca as a substitute for the stimulants - things containing caffeine or nicotine - and for depressants as opiates and alcohol http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2008/03/coca-to-combat-opiate-alcohol-and.html http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2008/03/coca-caffeine-substitute.html http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2011/04/coca-as-tobacco-habit-cure.html ...

O'Reilly makes a valuable mis-step/half-truth, which Nadelmann neglects to answer "cocaine and meth incapacitate" (3:23) Nadelmann could have at least mentioned the interply of pharmakokenetics and prohibition's iron law regarding Opiates and Cocaine in shifting markets to infinitely more concentrated forms of drugs and more problematic modes of drug taking.   For instance cocaine is a stimulant alkaloid found in small amounts in Coca leaves, as are caffeine and nicotine respectively in Coffee/other beverages and Tobacco.  But how much of the later two are consumed in white powder form, essentially unmeasured, of unstandardized potency, and in modes of taking that invite overdosing leading to the very incapacitation O'Reilly cites.   Do a tiny line of cocaine hci or chrystal meth and perhaps one is still within a range of enhancement -- aka a milder effect not interfering with life but rather the role of a gentle uplift.  But do a slightly larger amount, an...

A serious flaw of the drug policy reform movement- limiting attention to Marijuana while acting afraid of Coca-cocaine and Opiates; from a comment at Drug War Rant that quotes this article : "When we talk about legalizing marijuana, we inevitably have to decide what other drugs should be legalized. Do we legalize cocaine, crack, ecstasy, meth, heroin? If not, why not? Shouldn’t we legalize all drugs, regulate them and tax them like alcohol? I’m all in on legalizing marijuana. Tax it and we can retire the deficit overnight. Smoke it in bars and coffee houses and have laws governing where it can be used. I don’t know about the other drugs, though . We can debate it, but it seems futile to try to outlaw stuff that people want no matter the cost. At least maybe we could have a sane drug policy that recognizes reality.” Why do we continue to hear/see such nonsense. There’s NO reason not to legalize Opium and Coca, indeed no reason they go un-mentioned- the plants and products represen...

Douglas Willinger and Ethan Nadelmann - 1992 DPF conference Mid 1986 - Became extremely concerned about Ronald Wilson Reagan's insane ratcheting up the socially destructive - mega continuing boondoggle 'drug war' April 1987 - purchased the book 'Cocaine- Its History Uses and Effects' by Richard Ashley, where I first read about Angelo Francois Mariani and his Vin Mariani created amidst the 1860s female Parisian opera performer culture , and found  safe and effective in western Europe and North America . September-October 1987 - wrote the Fitz Hugh Ludlow Library Memorial Library about  Mariani - Coca  and received letter informing me of Chas Vermeulen Windsant in Amsterdam who got obsessed about the Mariani story, in spring 1978 , at about the 64th anniversary of Mariani's April 1, 1914 death in southern France. 1, April MCMXIV December 1987 - wrote letter to the Westchester Gannett newspapers about the banning of Coca and its perversion into concentrated coc...