War On Drugs

Its kinda of funny that many people are not aware of the tremendous amount of addicts and illict drugs that have made up American culture. The 1800 was wrought with Opium use and with the advent of morphine gave rise to a enormous population of morphine addicts.Morphine was used to treat many civil war wounded, but this gave rise to a Army of addicts. Women who were very disinfranchised on many levels of American society were discouraged to drink in public and so took various tonics to calm and relax. Morphine elixrs and etc were rampant.With the advent of Heroin whole new drug culture was created and people purchased syringes and needles from the Sears company to get high at home. Herion, Morphine, Cocaine was used in many over the counter tonics and elixers to include Coca Cola's tonic ingredient Cocaine " the pause that refreshes."Marijuana was grown and smoked all over the US. Abolishionisht stamping out Alcohol were consuming vast quantities of narcotics how ironic. Lips that touch alcohol will never touch mine, but I will get stoned off of Laudnum.As late as the 1960s LSD was available in magazine ads. Once the US began to "classify" drugs by a schedule that is when most drugs became criminalized. As late as the 80's Gamba O, or "X" was available in health food stores. And now the government has decided to stop the commericial use of ephedrine as of last year. Every single law and every single attempt to stop the American public from getting high has failed. Why? Because Americans like to get high. Duh.. Even the ones taxed to uphold the laws indulge or have indulged The Presidents.... ..mayors..lawyers..doctors.. The War on Drugs is not working. It is time to rethink the whole thing in my opinion. Throwing people in jail for it is not working. As long as there are drugs people will take them. Just my 2 cents.