Sunday, 6. February 2005
Topic: DRUGS - on February 6, 2005 at 2:50:00 PM CET
When All Drugs Were Legal....There Wasn't a Drugs Problem
Few people are aware that before World War I, a 9-year-old girl could walk into a drug store and buy heroin.
That's right – heroin. She didn't need a doctor's prescription or a note from her parents. She could buy it right off the shelf. Bayer and other large drug companies sold heroin as a pain-reliever and sedative in measured doses – just the way aspirin is sold today. Cocaine, opium, and marijuana were readily available as well. No Drug Enforcement Agency, no undercover cops, no "Parents – the Anti-Drug" commercials. Just people going about their own business is whatever way they chose.
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