Posted on 06/27/2010 3:20:05 AM PDT by Scanian
PS End of this discussion.
All these things were sold in stores. Cocaine, cannabis, heroin.
Then pharmaceutical companies got skilled at making artificial drugs. They realized that they could make a lot more money by creating artificial drugs and then patenting them and selling them than they could by refining natural substances. After that, most of the natural drugs were made illegal. The artificial replacements are available by prescription.
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