Who are the drug pushers of the 21st century?
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The "War on Drugs" is the name for the actual "War on Untaxable Profit & Capital Gains."\n\nThe reason drug compaines have started reporting record profits is due the recent lifing of a ban on advertising on television.  Now prescription drugs can be advertised anywhere and in any form of media.  People are actually walking into their doctor's office and asking for a specific brand of medication, they may not even need.\n\nDoctors get incentives (money) to prescribe certain brands of medication over other brands, and it is all perfectly legal.\n\nSo the answer to your question would be:  The Doctor's Office
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Gary Web investigated who was bringing in most of the drugs in the 1980's. He was shocked to find out it was the C.I.A. George H.W. Bush was the head of the C.I.A at the time so we know he was apart of it. Barry Seal was one of the C.I.A agents who actually got caught in this operation has a picture of him and his good buddy Bush sitting together when they attended college.\n   Now that Bush's son George W. Bush is in the white house, it is no surprise that when the troops arrived in Afghanistan and seized the poppy fields that Heroin is now a bigger money maker than ever. \n  All this cost Garry Web his life. He was found dead after he broke the drug story about the C.I.A and narcotics trafficking. Two bullet holes to the head and the rest is history for Mr. Web.\n  Afghanistan was important because of the Taliban and big money in drugs for our Government. Iraq was big because Bush and Cheney and there oil company Halliburton could seize the oil in Iraq and make a bundle of cash.\n  Don't you just love the people who are in charge of our government.
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Organized crime and drug trafficking are synonomous.\nIn today's drug trafficking everyone involved will eventually come under the control of organized crime,although drug trafficking is at its inception organized crime unto its own.\nOrganized crime, drug trafficking, and political protection are a scourge within our society that needs to be eliminated by each and every one of us.\nIdentify, report, and destroy, Aye!  Jose
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Drugs may have been the biggest impact.
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YES! The trend in Europe and America--for the last 100 years, or so-- is toward more acceptance of differing lifestyles. I'm old enough to remember segregation. And drug use was totally non-accepted back in the 1950s.
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Word of mouth. Weaklings who use drugs need to know that many of their peers are very happy without poisoning their bodies. \n\n(But don't start quoting religious scripture,  that approach just puts people off!)
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I know a lot of junkies and none of them look younger, they all look older b/c of the toll drugs put on your body!
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not really. its usually a drug people move up to, its not one that they start. gateway drugs are stuff like tobacco, alcohol, marijuana, mushrooms, etc.
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Drug addicts and alcoholics suffer from a disease. This disease usually results in consequences which are socially repugnant. At some point, these people have an insight to the fact that continued indulgence in drugs/alcohol will not be tolerated and will inevitably destroy them and all that's around them (true)-they then make a choice to keep going or get help. It is hard to sympathize with them unless they try to change. A couple of outstanding features of addiction is incredible selfishness as well as an amazing capacity to manipulate others. If we hand someone the "Victim" label, they will most likely run with it and use it to their own end. The stats are bleak for recovery.
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Yes, I'm sure that in 40 years, we will be curing cancer with crack and using heroin to combat diabetes.\n\nSheesh.  I'm all for legalization and the rights of the individual to choose what to put in his own body.  But some of the arguments that come out of pro-drug people, especially the medical ones these days, mostly just go to show that drugs impair judgement.
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Most illegal drugs are cultivated by various communist or terrorist groups using slave labor.  Anyone who refuses is murdered.  Actually, murder, torture, rape etc. are routinely used to keep the slaves intimidated so they don't even think of causing trouble.  In places like North Korea and Cuba, its the government doing this to its people.  In places like Mexico and Columbia, various criminals do this while the local governments and police are powerless to stop them.  The drug money supplied by rich jackasses who do drugs, in the US and europe simply makes them too powerful to stop.
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I think pot usage was wider spread back then before the government dug in with all the anti-drug campaigning and subsidies to law enforcement.  The taboo of it has been softened too.  Coke was off the hook back then, really just getting started...but I don't think it's any worse than today, considering how strong the growing darker forces of the Columbian Drug Cartel have become.  So, all-in-all, the same...basing that on information from the media and the occasional creepy book or two covering the subject from Barnes & Noble....
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This site gives lists of famous people and their various drug addictions. You can see, drug addiction is not a new thing.\n\nhttp://www.erowid.org/culture/characters/characters_drug_use.shtml
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There cannot be a victory for the U.S. "War on Drugs" until there is intelligent and comprehensive changes to the laws.  But more than that a change of attitudes moving drug use to a medical issue rather than leaving it a legal issue.  Now we criminalize drug use, filling up jails with addicts.  Social costs are extremely high.  If we instituted needle exchange programs, prescriptions for drugs including heroin to addicts who must register, and provided counseling and other support services to users on a multiagency level, then we would see crime organizations go bankrupt because customer base for illegal drugs would diminish, users could pursue a more normal existance, public health costs would go down, and it would steer users away from prison and crime.  check out the "Merceyside Model".
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Thats an interesting one my friend.My belief,unfortunately is ,that they already are!\nPirates and bandits, as long as there was no harming of innocents, were held in some reverence thanks to the poor being unharmed. Usually it was the "rich" who were robbed.\nDrug gangs harm every pillar of society in the most undiscerning way.\nTheir legacy has led to a complete dumming down of society.  Keep them ignorant and addictive= POWER. Indirectly supported by some governments.Great line of questioning though .\nTake a look at http://thebaldchemist.blogspot.com for a view of life.Take care my friend.
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Not yet it isn't but there are thoughts of doing so, and the costs will rise year on year. It's been tried in the past already. We will get addicts becoming more dependent. Doctors inundated with work. What if some people pretend to be addicts so that they can get supplies in order to get young children 'hooked' on drugs? What if some Doctors start drug dealing? It is open to all kinds of abuse. Money would be better spent trying to prevent people taking drugs in the first place and getting addicts off drugs.  This is a typical example of what's wrong with this Country. What are we trying to do? Give the Police less work? We want a visible Police Force with more manpower to tackle crime, not a nanny force.
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That's just one more side of all this problem, and the previous answer is rigth too.. The drugs find most of the consumer in the USA, and meanwhile in Latin America we haven't been able to have the economical growth needed, and that's a very profitable business!!!\n\nBut this is only a part of it, as i have been said, those lots of sides of the story should be known, studied, and solved TOGHETER!\n\nWhy don't we all take a break on this issue, as the congress men, and maybe we'll comeback with a whole bunch of information and good new ideas.lol.