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Re:I supported legalizing all drugs, then the opioid epidemi... by bluedino on Thursday April 20, 2017 @11:18AM (#14157432)
>> We're in cars and looking at computers.

We had opium problems since morphine/heroin have been around. Plenty of people were using in the late 1800's and it wasn't banned until the early part of last century.

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Re:I supported legalizing all drugs, then the opioid epidemi... by tylermac1 on Thursday April 20, 2017 @11:25AM (#14157498)
200 years in the grand scheme of human evolution is nothing.
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Re:I supported legalizing all drugs, then the opioid epidemi... by narrowrail on Thursday April 20, 2017 @12:24PM (#14158130)
My understanding is that opium became a problem once tobacco, and its method of consumption (i.e. smoking), became a global commodity in the 16th century. Opium was previously orally ingested, but when smoking it became the norm, the near-instant gratification caused an epidemic (mostly in China; see the Opium Wars/ British East India Company).
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