The Jokes thread

ThePanMan

Joined Mar 13, 2020
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Went to the drive through at Burger King. Sitting in the car with wife and kids eating our meal, a car drove by. In the car was a clown. Ronald McDonald to be exact. But he was just driving by. Or so I thought. He turned left into the driveway and into the BK Drive Through. Wish I had a camera that day.
 

SamR

Joined Mar 19, 2019
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As a kid, I always wondered why there were so many blue bottles for milk of magnesia in the old bottle piles. It was because there were so many morphine addicts that needed relief! Even in the early 70s you could get, by simply asking the pharmacist for it, Paregoric. One ounce of paregoric contained 129.6 mg of powdered opium and a good bit of camphor. Folks would dip cigarettes in it and let them dry before smoking them. You could also ask the pharmacist for cough syrup and get the cherry flavored codeine syrup until the late 60s or so.
 

BobTPH

Joined Jun 5, 2013
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As a kid, I always wondered why there were so many blue bottles for milk of magnesia in the old bottle piles. It was because there were so many morphine addicts that needed relief! Even in the early 70s you could get, by simply asking the pharmacist for it, Paregoric. One ounce of paregoric contained 129.6 mg of powdered opium and a good bit of camphor. Folks would dip cigarettes in it and let them dry before smoking them. You could also ask the pharmacist for cough syrup and get the cherry flavored codeine syrup until the late 60s or so.
More evidence that the “drug crisis” is caused by drug laws, not drug use.
 

nsaspook

Joined Aug 27, 2009
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More evidence that the “drug crisis” is caused by drug laws, not drug use.
That's a ridiculous joke made worse by actual evidence. Oregon destroyed that BS statement. No drug laws created a horrible drug crisis, that ate the heart and soul out of this progressive wonderland.

Measure 110, was the first drug decriminalization measure in the country that affected harder drugs outside of marijuana and pushed for a health-based approach to fighting addiction versus arrests.

This was a total failure unless you wanted people to die and cities to to become zombie zones

Drug use is the drug crisis.
 
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wayneh

Joined Sep 9, 2010
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As a kid, I always wondered why there were so many blue bottles for milk of magnesia in the old bottle piles. It was because there were so many morphine addicts that needed relief! Even in the early 70s you could get, by simply asking the pharmacist for it, Paregoric. One ounce of paregoric contained 129.6 mg of powdered opium and a good bit of camphor. Folks would dip cigarettes in it and let them dry before smoking them. You could also ask the pharmacist for cough syrup and get the cherry flavored codeine syrup until the late 60s or so.
I loved Paregoric. Mom knew a ban was coming and stocked up on it. It was incredibly soothing and effective when your guts were cramping or you had a chest cold. We'd only get a dose of it once a year or so but it felt so great, it's obvious why some people abused it. Mothers used it to get their kids to shut them up. A pity.
 

SamR

Joined Mar 19, 2019
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The politics and enforcement of the Volstead Act, known colloquially as Prohibition, and its chief enforcer Harry J. Anslinger is quite intriguing and full of erroneous assumptions not supported by scientific actuality. And when the Volstead Act was repealed, and Harry lost his job, he (along with J. Edgar Hoover et al) moved on to establishing and enforcing laws against various drugs. Cannibis became the EVIL Predator of children and was considered as bad or even worse than Heroin/Opium/Morphine so along with Heroin et al it also became a Class I illegal drug and still is under Federal Law which supersedes state and local laws. Don't believe it? Try going through TSA boarding inspection with your Medical Marijuana Card and a baggie full of Cannibis or Gummies that you bought legally in a state licensed dispensary. Then, of course, there is the horror that the Great British Empire visited upon china and others in Asia with their Opium Trade. Not a real bright spot of history. And the reason that china was/is embarrassed and "Lost Face" leading to their current retaliation against the world with assisting/promoting Fentanyl trafficking. China refers to the time of the Opium Trade as "The Great Embarrassment". And they react VERY strongly to being embarrassed and "Losing Face"!
 
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