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Date Posted: 12:50:35 02/11/14 Tue
Author: Cece
Subject: In the modern world, illegal drug use is far greater than it was in the first 7 decades of the 20thc. When I was in elementary school in the 1950s, we were told about opium and its effects, but it's use was esoteric. Ordinary people did not have to worry about their children using even marijuana. Now the use of recreational drugs is widespread, across all classes. Hollywood glamourises drug use. Even drug overdoses are not blamed on the users. It's always someone else's fault.
In reply to: The Chief 's message, "People have been doing this kind of thing for millenia. We just see more of it because of the immediacy of the news cycle." on 00:17:47 02/11/14 Tue


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[> [> [> But people STILL got addicted and still had problems with substance abuse beginning in the 1800s. And there was a time when many drugs were NOT illegal - opium, heroin, morphine, cocaine. There were many addicts but they were not using illeglly (I found a link with brief info - inside). Drugs were finally outlawed, but then the '60s happened. I agree that illegal drug use has been glamorized by Hollywood, the music industry, etc., and the choice to take that first hit is never anyone else' s fault. -- The Chief, 23:07:48 02/11/14 Tue [1]

http://casapalmera.com/the-history-of-illegal-drugs-in-america/


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[> [> [> [> In the past in Western societies, drug use was prevalent, mostly among the educated (poets, aesthetes, doctors etc). In the past few decades, ordinary working and middle class parents, have to watch out for early drug use by their kids, even in elementary school. Common drug use amongst late teens and up, didn't really happen (outside of the Beat Generation), until the mid to late 60s, and it certainly hadn't hit school kids. Overall, the figures are just not comparable to other centuries in terms of common, general usage. (inside) -- Cece, 16:00:30 02/12/14 Wed [1]

At least up to the end of the 19thc,laudenum, containing morphine and opium, was used as a pain killer, and I believe, even given to children to get them to sleep. (I may be wrong here.)
One of my favourite poems from the Romantics is Coleridge's Kubla Khan, completed in 1797. It was written after an opium induced dream. I also have a 100+ yrs old copy of Confessions of an English Opium Eater, by Thomas DeQuincey first published in 1822. One day I'll get around to reading it, but maybe it requires an ingestion of opium first!


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[> [> [> [> [> Julia Roberts's sister was just found dead of an apparent overdose. Sigh. -- Cece, 16:01:12 02/12/14 Wed [1]


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