Ron Paul Endorses Heroin – A Study in American History

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http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/37228

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Canada Free Press? WTH?

Author conveniently cherry picks from U.S. history talking exclusively about a period of history where America radically deviated from freedom and founding principles.

[Mary Microgram]

In the late 1800s/early 1900s, heroin was available through mail-order catalogues and was routinely given to babies in cough syrup. Same with cocaine and hashish. Heroin is not the demon drug it's made out to be; in fact, many of the atrocities associated with it (overdose, needle sharing) are a product of prohibition rather than the drug itself.

Fentanyl--a prescription opioid that's active in microgram doses--is many times more potent than heroin, as is oxymorphone (and likely Dilaudid). Vicodin (hydrocodone + acetaminophen) is currently the most widely prescribed drug in the U.S., spawning thousands of new addicts each year. See where this is going? There is nothing inherently evil about heroin that doesn't also apply to prescription opiates. The media just likes to throw around the word "heroin" because of the stigma associated with it.

Favoring legalization does not mean a person is "in favor" of drug abuse itself. This is the message we have to get out to people.