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The history of drugs (narcotics)   Drugs: alcohol, heroin, cocaine, hashish, nicotine, caffeine of coffee or tea plants, etc.   They were hungry, had had very little for weeks, and had not eaten at all for days. They were weak and irritable. Suddenly there was a loud shout. Everyone ran as fast as their feet carried them. One lay on the floor next to a shrub and made a happy face. Another time, one died or lay in a coma for a few hours. When he woke up, he told what he had seen, felt or experienced in his dream world. Very often, They imagined to have been in paradise. Sometimes the next day, one was dead, half-dead, or felt great. However, the need to repeat this experience was irresistible. From time to time, one even paid a whole domestic animal to get the coveted plant. The partly blunting, stimulating or hallucinogenic effects made people see everything from a different perspective. The others looked at the narcotized person and were excited to hear their stories. Everything we eat, drink, ingest through the skin or breathe in has an effect and a lot of money has often been paid for certain delights or, for various reasons, it has been banned in different cultures at different times or, like in baroque in Europe, coffee was forbidden only for women. The shaman among primitive people used it when he wanted to put himself in a state of trance, for example through dancing. At the Turks, a warrior in a semi-conscious state was brought to a rose garden with beautiful girls to show him where he would go if he died in the name of Allah. Things start to get interesting when European traders turn it into business. - The Quran prohibits alcohol. Mohamed probably realized that the use of this drug weakens his warriors' fighting ability. - Coffee was brought to South America and cocoa to Africa to have it grown in one’s own colonies so that it did not have to be purchased from competing countries or the enemy. - There was no real market in Europe for the opium made in India, so it was imported to China to be exchanged for silk, porcelain and precious metals, which could then be offered in Europe. However, consumer goods are not used to produce other goods, but rather blown into the air, or otherwise converted into worthless urine and feces by the organism, so they do not increase the wealth of a country, but reduce it. The Chinese emperor also noticed this and wanted to ban the import of opium, to which the English responded with a military attack, which resulted in the first opium war in 1839-42 and the second in 1856-60. - While Napoleon held Europe in his hand, he forced all the countries he had occupied to ban the import of coffee, tea and tobacco because they came from English colonies. - Alcohol was banned in the U.S.A. as a dangerous narcotic in the 1920s. - The Viet Cong in Indochina financed their liberation war against the French and Americans from the heroin they produced, after which the Americans threw napalm bombs to destroy the fields and banned this former sore throat drug as a narcotic in America. - The Lebanese sold hashish for their civil war. - The Kurds in Turkey did the same, first with hashish and then with heroin. - Or the freedom movements in South America that used cocaine to fight against fascists such as Pinochet. - The dictator of Panama, Noriega, was interned for alleged cocaine trafficking in the U.S. - Alcohol consumption has been banned in most Muslim countries to this day. Drugs are becoming more and more legalized today because governments and societies have finally realized that criminalization is actually only harming their own systems. But no! Now in Europe they start to prohibit cigarettes because tobacco is not grown there. Instead, the narcotic alcohol is advertised as medicine! Any doctor who suggests a glass of wine a day to his patients should return his diploma and resign. What an economic mess!   Back to list!

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