Attached Link: http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/heroin/opiwar1.htm

I wonder if there would be that many kids taking up a drug habit if there was not the cache of daringness and excitement connected to doing something illegal? Coupled with that there is the question of the huge investment that pushers make in giving kids stuff free to get them hooked?, this only happens because of the artificially high price of these products, take that away and there is no profitable return on ensnarement and consequently much lower numbers in indiscriminate usage. Alcohol is relatively cheap but not everyone is an alcoholic. It is certain that the *Pushers* would move on to something else. It is certain that the levels of crime related to using would drop. The British Government in the 19thC created a world-wide market for Opium by using armed force. Read about the *Opium Wars* and tell me if the Government should give China Compensation and the rest of the world at that! for creating the first *Drug Cartels* which have blossomed ever since? The USA crushed the coffee markets of South America and wonder why farmers grow other stuff. What should we do about that? I did a quick search on the Royal Horticultural Society web site and found the plant Salvia divinorum freely available. If someone decides I cant grow it and therefore pushes the price of any supply through the roof, then they should think about the consequences, not me.