Cocaine: History Between the Lines

[underwear fun]

Hey,

I watched this documentry on the History Channel the other week and found the $30 billion a year Mexico/USA symbiotic drug relationship interesting. This two-hour special goes inside the history of the second most used illicit drug in America. Just posted if other are interested or have already seen it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOzEO_S4ux0

http://vimeo.com/34681775

Undie

 

[angelone]

There's no end to this cycle. It seems almost hopeless and down-right depressing. I think that drastic measures must be taken to reduce the problem on both sides: shoot the dealers and castrate the users.

 

[joninliverton]

I dont use it, nor any other drug.

 

[cumrag27]

Being reasonable is a good thang!!!

I dont use it, nor any other drug.

Dear Jon,

Not even Catnip?

Boy are you a "good boy". I am truly proud of you!

I don't now nor have I ever in the past used any illegal drugs, except for a little mandatory "under-aged as well as legal-aged drinking" while in college. Mostly, that was used to give me enough "courage" to hit on my str8 college friends, hoping to bend an ear or two, and perhaps, loosen a few elasticized waistbands along the way stretching a little personal resistance and limits to my overtly sexual advances. I was even more obsessed with male genetalia back then(can that even be imagined) but it was so unthinkable socially back then. My drinking back then didn't work that well for me in my experience. Mostly what I could count on was to fall asleep with a "stiffy" and feeling like hell the next morning and even more horny yet with my "stiffy" just inches away wondering if it was going to finally get it some relief or not?

The very thing I dreamed of, namely becoming a fully-certified and -trained "Cocksucker" was deemed (by the then current mores) as being about as low as any male could possibly go. Yet even so, that was what I dreamed of becoming some day. I was starving for some "real and juicy (man)meat regardless of the cut", several levels above what you could normally find at any grocery store meat counter. I guess being the object of bullying and taunting when my male hormones were just beginning to kick-in left me more than a little shy when it came to getting my current sexual needs met. Attempting to be an honestly good "Catholic" boy didn't help me much, either! Having to confess weekly each and every time I touched or just the mere thought of touching myself for even the tiniest little thrill all conspired taking its toll on me, sexually speaking. It succeeded in keeping me sufficiently brow-beaten that I did not dare having the personal courage or self-confidence necessary to venture on with my sexual development until I was finally 25 shortly before starting my first job in my professional career as an educator . Picture that against the backdrop of the early years of the "SEXUAL REVOLUTION" OF THE 1960's AND 70's". What an argument for questioning my SANITY! I hit 25 in 1973, "Can you dig it"? All I am saying is there are reasonable limits to being a "good boy", long before finally hitting age 25!

My message is...So let's all be reasonable as we can be (maturity-wise), but without the illegal drug usage, PLEASE!!!



Sincerely reasonable now,



Stimpy

 

[rrhill]

The war on drugs failed.
6/2/2011
A new report by the Global Commission on Drug Policy argues that the decades-old worldwide "war on drugs has failed, with devastating consequences for individuals and societies around the world." The 24-page paper was released Thursday.

"Political leaders and public figures should have the courage to articulate publicly what many of them acknowledge privately: that the evidence overwhelmingly demonstrates that repressive strategies will not solve the drug problem, and that the war on drugs has not, and cannot, be won," the report said.

The 19-member commission includes former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and former U.S. official George P. Schultz, who held cabinet posts under U.S. Presidents Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon.
read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4324807...drugs-has-failed-key-panel-says/#.UGnX01GjOSo

Drugs abuse is a medical problem, so it should be handled by doctors, not the police or justice department. Educate kids: about soft drugs like marijuana and hash, and hard drugs like cigarettes, alcohol, cocaine, heroine, pills...

There's a whole lot of difference between pot, or cocaine.

 

[mikeyank]

The Pusher

The war on drugs failed.
6/2/2011
A new report by the Global Commission on Drug Policy argues that the decades-old worldwide "war on drugs has failed, with devastating consequences for individuals and societies around the world." The 24-page paper was released Thursday.

"Political leaders and public figures should have the courage to articulate publicly what many of them acknowledge privately: that the evidence overwhelmingly demonstrates that repressive strategies will not solve the drug problem, and that the war on drugs has not, and cannot, be won," the report said.

The 19-member commission includes former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and former U.S. official George P. Schultz, who held cabinet posts under U.S. Presidents Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon.
read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4324807...drugs-has-failed-key-panel-says/#.UGnX01GjOSo

Drugs abuse is a medical problem, so it should be handled by doctors, not the police or justice department. Educate kids: about soft drugs like marijuana and hash, and hard drugs like cigarettes, alcohol, cocaine, heroine, pills...

There's a whole lot of difference between pot, or cocaine.

How did you get so smart Robert? I agree with everything you say, and of course the "war on drugs" is going to fail. Mankind has always wanted to "get high", going back throughout recorded history. Look what happened in the U.S. during Prohibition. Organized crime became the distributor of alcohol as they are with drugs today.

This is the third or fourth subject that I've posted on in the last few days, about illegal and immoral things that I believe have been around as long as man has roamed the earth, and I don't see any of them ending soon either.

 

[joninliverton]

And now the price for the drugs war is 2000 + American lives in Afghanistan, and the Brits are over 400 too. How do you convince friends and families of the dead that this is a worthwhile cause.

 

[mikeyank]

And now the price for the drugs war is 2000 + American lives in Afghanistan, and the Brits are over 400 too. How do you convince friends and families of the dead that this is a worthwhile cause.

It is always the young men and today young women too who are the sacrificial lambs who are sent off to slaughter by the political leaders. No one expressed this notion better than in this marvelous Donovan song, written by Buffie Saint Marie. Try to listen to the lyrics here.

Universal Soldier lyrics
Songwriters: Sainte-Marie, Buffy;

He's five foot two and he's six feet four
He fights with missiles and with spears
He's all of thirty-one and he's only seventeen
Been a soldier for a thousand years

He's a Catholic, a Hindu, an Atheist, a Jain
A Buddhist and a Baptist and a Jew
And he knows he shouldn't kill and he knows he always will
Kill you for me my friend and me for you

And he's fighting for Canada
He's fighting for France, he's fighting for the U.S.A.
And he's fighting for the Russians
And he's fighting for Japan
And he thinks we'll put an end to war this way

And he's fighting for Democracy, he's fighting for the Reds
He says "It's for the peace of all"
He's the one who must decide, who's to live and who's to die
And he never sees the writing on the wall

But without him
How would Hitler have condemned him at Labau?
Without him Caesar would have stood alone
He's the one who gives his body as a weapon of the war
And without him all this killing can't go on

He's the Universal Soldier and he really is to blame
His orders come from far away no more
They come from here and there and you and me
And brothers can't you see
This is not the way we put the end to war