Colorado Experience: Indulgences of the West

[@brandons9913]

I’m so happy I found this channel! I’m loving all these Colorado history videos 🎉

[@banginzaza]

Especially the 420 ones 😊😊😊

[@Orophile_303]

The west will always be the best! I love you, Colorado!!!!!

[@utah133]

I was a child in the 1950's, and even at that late date the doctor prescribed paraghoric, an amber liquid consisting of principally alcohol and morphine to quiet cholicy children. I received a few doses myself. It accomplished it's purpose.

[@lawnmowermanlawnmowerman9930]

I took a lot of of that stuff over the years,yet I don't like most opium derived pain killers now.

[@jasonlund5949]

Not much has changed, Colorado is still like this in some respects.

[@aedynjakpoetry]

this is exactly the documentary I was looking for and I got it in spades...

[@leslieanthony1559]

I'm amazed at how many different types of bottles they had.

[@wadenixon5937]

Been there done that,,60’s-70’s ,,, lessons learned ~ 80’s no more, tired of waking up on the floor 🧠🤦‍♂️🧟‍♂️✌️

[@cassidy4743]

I'm a Colorado native. Fourth generation. And I love this video! The old photos are very interesting. It's so strange to see such a huge transformation in Denver. I remember my great, great grandmother actually owned a bottle of the cocaine tooth relief gel.😲 So weird.😂 And I also remember her and my grandpa telling me about the original Coca Cola containing cocaine. It seems there were more drug addicts back then, than there are now. I never would've thought.

[@johndarre7201]

BULLSHIT

[@cassidy4743]

@@johndarre7201 Hmm. Alrighty then.

[@billdavis6978]

Colorado is the most beautiful state out of every state I’ve been in. I lived in Crested Butte during the late 90’s. Many now are transplants and I respect every native Coloradan.

[@neilpk70]

Really informative and enjoyable. The folks presenting obviously love Colorado history. Reminds me of my favorite university professors.

[@shaunbyrne1197]

Neil, your so right some of us have a desire to be numb, soft and out of it for a short period. What angers me is that the therapeutic benefits of Cannabis were not investigated until recently.

[@lindaclark5911]

shaun byrne don't be mad, get high.

[@ChristinaDay-vi1yb]

Actually he therapeutic effects of cannabis is why it was and is still illegal. If people knew the truth.. that cannabis can and does treat almost all illnesses, the pharmacuetical Industry would completely fail

[@joegormley2761]

What a really interesting and enjoyable 26:40. Thank you for posting.

[@martychisesi1641]

Good quote.. that "drugs aren't good or bad but what we make of them... funny how you can't share this video.. best educational video ever!! Go Colorado!

[@dragon90815]

Everyone has a medicine, everyone has a favorite, Everyone has a soul

[@dartboycmh]

GREAT VIDEO!!!

[@billyseneczyn94]

Superb episode. Wow was this a interesting watch!

[@herrunsinn774]

It was interesting because you were high. Reruns of The Beverly Hillbillies are interesting too... If you are high enough. ;-)

[@thisisyourcaptainspeaking2259]

This goes a long way toward explaining today's conventional wisdom for these places, we are a product of our environment.

[@cat-lw6kq]

My sister used to smoke pot so I made her watch "Reefer Madness". it's a 1930's film and of course she and I got a big laugh.

[@rebeccahale322]

This channel is fascinating.. Thank you..

[@CrimeCurious]

Thank you.

[@markallen3293]

History does not repeat it self, it rhymes...Mark Twain.

[@notebook2876]

Government thought to regulate drugs so they could take the profits. What I'd really like to know is what's in our food if that's what we call it that we eat in the year 2020 everyday in America!

[@joejones9520]

Everybody knows the Coke/cocaine story but most dont know that up until 1950, 7-Up contained lithium to act as a mood stabilizer...

[@ChristinaDay-vi1yb]

A lot of products contain similar drugs. Mints, candies, alot of tHem have old school antidepressants. Like lithium and phentotonics.

[@donnakeeley7924]

How interesting! My grandfather grew up in Salidas and Leadville, Colorado during this time period. Is interesting to know what society was like back then. Thanks for the post.

[@buzzevermore9309]

Thanks for an enjoyable documentary. I think I'll go smoke a bowl 👍

[@ms.sanchez3924]

Thanks for the bowl suggestion. Could use it.

[@ms.sanchez3924]

@bad dog sorry, I just finished half a blunt. Nest time😶

[@MsEKN]

Ditto

[@mkivy]

Joshua Sherman yessiree!

[@muchmusicmcquade]

Smoke it and blow for our and everyone's wellbeing Sir Yes I'm a Smokin da good Kona legally in Canada Eh?

[@EdwinBellis]

I love learning

[@francismuiruri9064]

A honestly told story very nice.

[@bingeltube]

Very recommendable

[@karinmoseley8694]

ty for the share. i love finding the local history programs!

[@MsJamilaaa]

What I find most awesome is that human nature hasn't changed a bit... Clothes and levels of comfort changed... Rest, we are all the same :)

[@giantasparagus]

:^)

[@colsmith7257]

That's why the Bible remains relevant today, it's about human nature. Religion is a sham, bible hasn't changed,

[@bethfaulkner6477]

I'm wondering why would anyone would have a reason to thumbs down this video. What were they expecting "Gun Smoke."

[@michaelwilcox6090]

@Beth Faulkner It's late in the evening and thats the best laugh I'm gonna have today.

[@albertbryan7132]

Fighting a national crisis over slavery. My what a simplistic statement which leaves out many reasons for the war and embraces the slavery narrative.

[@nitsuanomrah6997]

Elaborate please. What was civil war really about if not slavery.

[@fredact]

11:45 "they were industrious and hard working" . Positive stereotypes are no different than negative ones.

[@bethcox1283]

David Galea *Okay boomer*

[@jc4evur661]

17:38 Note the bar towels right above the spittoon's...now that was sanitation old west style!

[@brannonmcclure6970]

Well spoke. I agree.

[@TicklerDude]

I think Ron Jeremy got his start in the adult entertainment business there

[@heyyall9378]

lol. Good, respectable ladies didn't drink whisky at bars. They stayed home and did hard drugs.

[@claychandler3468]

Same. As today

[@jsigur157]

of course when a drug isn't illegal, it doesn't get a bad name. These drugs all becasme illegal because of big pharma at the turn of the early 20th century

[@jsigur157]

When they said America realized they needed to step back they really mean big pharma wanted to control the product

[@dystopiagear6999]

Yep. It was the same all through the 20th century and in most places still now today - if you get it from Big Pharma it's OK. No matter how many people die from it. Most states still don't want you to just smoke a joint, but they don't mind at all if you're so pilled up on meth (adderrall) or heroin (various opioids) that you rattle when you walk. It's all about money, power and control. They just want to keep big business getting richer and keep those jails full.

[@michaelwilcox6090]

@Minnie Then they started up the suffragette movement and feminism. They were also behind prohibition.

[@atomicbarbarian7372]

Amazing reflection of today's situation with opiates being prescribed. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

[@Zamigirl]

Ya got that right brother.

[@dianemarshall5255]

This was very interesting.🤔

[@PoutinePete]

I love how these expert 'Historians' regurgitate what they've read in books and make it sound like they've witnessed these historic events themselves thanks to their time machine. Well we're not falling for it anymore Poindexter!

[@quester09]

well, you watched it though...

[@focusedeye]

bob pete "I love how these expert 'Historians' regurgitate what they've read in books and make it sound like they've witnessed these historic events themselves..." That's what they're experts. Why not enlighten us "your" personal expose stories of historic events from this bygone era? Regale us with tales of your misspent youth.

[@OldHeathen1963]

Your statement show you know nothing about how Historians work! I bet you're a Trumpy Q anon too! 🍊🤡

[@rahkinrah1963]

2020. This explains Colorado's usage and laws now...

[@campyhub]

What a huge step forward for women since that time. They can now practice alcohol and drug addiction in public.

[@AmishWebmaster]

The key statement about prohibition of anything. 20:54 to 21:00

[@ohmomair]

Amazing how marijuana was viewed then and how it is being legalised for medicinal uses in Colorado, California and other states.

[@RocknCorruptrepublic]

It is legalized recreationally in CO too

[@calebheney302]

@@RocknCorruptrepublic colorado, first state to legalize its recreational use.

[@patatoh71]

i love my state

[@megan195]

Kevin Qujada qwrroqzdu122111134

[@joshweickum]

The opium users that survived only did so because something moderated their use of it. The difference between medicine and poison is the dosage. Moderation is the key.

[@KevinJohnson-jc9ju]

JW like anything else isn't it? My dsd told me too much jerking off would make me go blind, sure enough I had to start wearing glasses in my 40's

[@ms.sanchez3924]

That's what every addict says. Moderation may be possible in the beginning, but when people start having problems with anxiety and depression or some other problem, such as a family tragedy, will remember how that drug made them feel. Then b4 you know it, you got a full blown habit. I should know. Been there along with other "moderate" users. Thankfully, it's behind me.

[@ms.sanchez3924]

@@KevinJohnson-jc9ju oh, you can't really believe that. Many people start needing glasses when they get older. Comment was kinda funny tho! I hope u don't go blind. Lol

[@KevinJohnson-jc9ju]

@@ms.sanchez3924 yes I said it all in fun

[@zivkovicable]

Availability, illegality & price are key. People wonder why Keith Richards from the Stones has survived so long. Easy, his supply has been constant, & he can afford the cleanest product & he's not living in poverty. Street junkies forgo food, are constantly on the edge of withdrawal, maybe share needles & are forced to associate with criminality. So they die. The Swiss state administers pure heroin to addicts under medical supervision in special clinics, & addict survival rates have shot up (no pun intended). Not only that, most begin to lead productive home & work lives, contributing to society & paying tax. As supply has been taken out of the hands of criminal gangs, there has been a dramatic reduction of new addicts, as the state has no interest in gaining new customers. Prohibition is more dangerous than the drug itself, which if administered under supervision probably won't kill you. Not to say it's not highly addictive. It is. Almost as much as alcohol.

[@deplorablewhiteman3628]

Yea i never had problems getting weed in denver in the 70s but i did have trouble getting good weed sometimes

[@rickygonzalez8065]

I watched this and for some reason made the dab I did at the end taste way better!!

[@amberlyndelainee5391]

The donkey in the bar is my favorite.

[@lindadavis4129]

I knew this, now the prove is in the bag. 😆

[@henryrudolph1952]

Correct me if I'm wrong the longer a bottle of Whisky sits unopened the better or smoother the taste? I think that how it works.

[@alwayswondering4051]

Sounds like a very lovely period of history. Opium, whiskey, and women. Beautiful. I'm there.

[@greenspiraldragon]

Paregoric was given to young children to make them sleep good. Coca-cola still contains extract of coca leaves just with the cocaine removed.

[@freedmm3122]

greenspiraldragon my mom gave me paragoric when I was vomiting

[@paystarbuzzy]

Hell yeah.

[@sailorbychoice1]

7:05 Having once endured a 12 hour flight next to a screaming _(never effing stopped)_ one year old I had no relationship with, at all, I kind wonder if a little dose wouldn't have been better for the kid than 12 hours of screaming... I'm just saying. Not to mention how close I came to strangling the little monster after about forth-five minutes. Mom was trying but there was nothing she did that helped. Or someone should offered it to me for the last ten hours of the flight, I'd have accepted.

[@TheTallMan50]

Get yourself a pair of noise isolating headphones before your next flight.

[@colsmith7257]

I new a nanny who once tried giving a client's child alcohol, it just made him more hypo. But I once put some scotch and ginger ale in my brothers fridge. His wife gave it to their 5 year old son, that afternoon, he slept in half the next day, after being cranky and falling over a lot the previous.

[@dougreed9843]

You didn't mentioned peyote really I'm pretty sure that was around, also one of these things back then. Because it was around from the Indians kids in the 70's. A mental 3 day vacation, smoking it. I know for sure was happening then. An Indian kid we hung out with came back from a traditional holiday thing, I don't know what it was exactly, we where smoking weed very young. The Indian kids did that with us as well, but brought the payote. We all laughed and broke out the weed pipe gave it a try. I never did that again, I had opportunity to try it again. 3 days disappeared in my life, I had no idea what happened during those 3 days.

[@michaelwilcox6090]

@Doug Reed Even that sounds better than the so called mescaline trip I had down London. I bought 2 capsules from a dealer who charged me 50% more than an LSD tablet and said it was mesacaline and very strong. I dropped one and had to get out of my home and walk. I ended up in a tube station and with the rumbling of the train it sounded like the end of the world. I actually believed it was, and that set me off for one hell of a paranoid trip. When I got to my destination, the home of some friends I told them about the bummers. Then I said I still had a capsule left and did anyone want it. Nobody wanted it when they saw the state I was in, so I just tossed it.

[@dubthedirector]

More credit should be given to the often unmentioned members of history that made any boom town work, and saviors of the Chinese, I’ll refer to as soiled doves! 🕊 let’s bring em back what do ya say, Colorado lead the way!👏🏼😬

[@rava2107]

You have got to remember it was called laudenum and was available over the counter all over the place

[@julianakleijn9254]

right. it seriously was like getting motrin today

[@t8r507]

The Problem is when they entirely took the choice away from you, I know drugs shouldn't be distributed to just everyone, but the choice should be up to the adult, If I want to take a substance I should be able to, my choice

[@jamstagerable]

Nope...Not when Big Brother sees dollars signs we can't! They want their cut no matter what

[@mkivy]

Can u imagine if it was legal! Man what a time!

[@crforfreedom7407]

1880 all over again. Research what it did to China

[@casadelshed9128]

A similar thing happened in here Australia.

[@oliviahamilton9209]

What I would do to go back for a week end

[@deborahhoffman7394]

Olivia :3 God NO.

[@richardwadd9769]

Count me in!

[@TheTallMan50]

You would die. Folks back then could handle illicit substances a lot better than us in modern times because everything nowadays is purified, pasteurized, and fully cooked.

[@graycloud057]

Olivia Hamilton - Ya sure? No antibiotics. Typhoid, smallpox, no plumbing out there. Human waste oozing down the side of the street. Nah, you go ahead, I’ll stick where I am.

[@diggingthewest7981]

I don't care what these other people say I'm with you, it would all be worth it to see the frontier. I'd rather take my chances with anything during the 1800's than this ugly thing people call civilized.

[@felipeagonzalez8373]

That's d kind of fun I like.

[@michaelharold1334]

Regulators always vastly over state a problem. Regulators always do this. Including people who overstated and overstate racism. Most public issues are over stated to create inertia in one direction versus another.

[@cmonster6]

In the 60s we were given Paragoric which was alcohol and opiates

[@dbx1233]

Ah! The good old days when one could go to the local Drug Store and purchase over the counter Opium, Alcohol, Cocaine and various and sundry items of Legal Drugs. ( Forget you F.D.A.)

[@liisavarhalla6348]

I remember seeing films in our health classes in high school about marijuana.. lol 1 toke on a joint, and people were howling at the moon and eating glass. This was 1967 in Chicago, Ill. I was 14...gees. I was a dumb kid, I believed this stuff. Until a couple years later when i experimented. Needless to say, i didnt do either.

[@cat-lw6kq]

you had better watch "Reefer Madness". I made my sister watch it of course as a joke.

[@celtick4985]

they had heap good medici 😯

[@neilcarson4511]

Once the facts come out, it's clear that humans have had a big desire to get high in whatever way for thousands of years. I didn't know that they used to put opium in cigarettes, that really pissed me off.

[@raclark2730]

Were can i get some boric acid catsup.

[@ohmeowzer1]

thank you

[@janetpitts7302]

Well cocaine always took away my pain and made me very happy and I got alot of work done!!

[@MadDoktor88]

Janet Pitts, If you're Buddy's sister, I'm pleasantly surprised! Cocaine?

[@charlieevan3569]

@@MadDoktor88 rip buddy

[@michaelwhisman7623]

When I was about 10 I was prescribed Opium.

[@dianadrb]

I'm 69 years old and was born in 1951. My parents used to put wooden clothes pin in a mason jar cover and let stand over night. When I was teething I was given that to chew on and relieve pain!

[@dianadrb]

Cover with whiskey to relieve teething pain.

[@johnd.holtjr.9518]

laws are getting lax in Texas also

[@burkeofmellowpark3472]

Drug use was in every community; from Seattle, to Colo.,to Tombstone,Az,To Menlo Park,CA. Just as today. But there was no regulation becuz everything was legal.

[@larrylund2682]

Sailors would bring opium into the country in the early days. Wasn't all from china. East coast "O" came from the middle east, turkey, afganistan, etc. Probably was grown in south america too. The transcontinental Railroad was financed by Wo Fat. He happened to be an opium dealer and provided the Coolies to help build the railroad. When that job was done. There was no return ticket for the workers. The were stranded in the wild wild west. Lucky it was sparsely populated back then.

[@ufxpnv]

There's still coca leaves in Coca Cola. They get processed in New Jersey.

[@stevesteinmacher1115]

No there isn't

[@ralphgarcia913]

It's carmel flavored corn syrup and carbonated water.

[@I_am_Diogenes]

I find the whole thing secondary to the humorous thought that you think have some Right to have input into how ANYONE lives their life .

[@chrischiampo7647]

I Love Laudanum 😀😊 Liquid Morphine 3 Pelts a Day Keeps The Withdraws Away 🤢🤮🤢🤕👍🏼

[@jsigur157]

of course the Chinese opium problem was made in England with the opium wars in the mid nineteenth century

[@jsigur157]

I didn't realize this was going to be a moral appraisal about whether to do drugs or not- title is misleading

[@michaelwilcox6090]

@Blindlight Ye I have to put my hand up for that. We were absolutely ruthless drug dealers with a respectable facade. We did it to force them to trade with us in the silk business.

[@Zamigirl]

Ah England -The shopkeepers of the world.Brits didn't care who got hurt a long as they made money.

[@catholiccrusader5328]

@@Zamigirl you got that right.

[@jsigur157]

@@Zamigirl Most brits had nothing to do with the decisons made at the top so why not blame the greedy 1 percent? Just as most southern whites livelihood was hurt by slavery and it was only through the elites intentional race separation program after the Bacon Rebellion, did whites as a whole form a racist attitude towards their fellow enslaved peers

[@jessarellanes6648]

Interesting

[@suzannecooke2055]

BEER: The brewing process pasteurizes. Hops are a preservative. without hops, you have ale.

[@GottliebGoltz]

People have had hops growing up their walls here in S/W Montana since I been a kid and I've always been curious and even asked but now at 71, I believe I now get the idea. Thank You.

[@awizardalso]

As someone who was in the underground drug market through the 70's and retired from it in the early 80's, one argument I can make about marijuana is it's not really a gateway drug as commonly called. The reason it can be called a gateway drug, is you could only get it illegally from someone who sold it, also called a dope dealer. As for the 'gateway' part, dope dealers would offer a free sample of some other drug , like cocaine, heroin or even meth amphetamine, to get a new customer for themselves and what they were selling. I mean if you could get marijuana from a drug store or legally from a state liquor store, what would be the chances a pharmacist or the clerk behind the counter would offer a free sample of what I already mentioned? Not much. I don't think marijuana would make you want to do any other drugs. From my experience, I do have some reservations about legalizing marijuana except for medical use as it does have some benefits for that. I do have AADHD and I did find marijuana in small doses did help me to focus on something I was doing as it slowed down my brain activity. I stay away from marijuana now and my brain just keeps running like a car on the freeway with the cruise control set, I don't have a brake pedal to shut it off.

[@shangrila73eldorado]

of course its a gateway drug. you're talking nonsense

[@awizardalso]

@@shangrila73eldorado Actually I don't think so. Where can one get access to other illegal drugs? From a drug dealer who wants to get more customers by offering a free sample. I've seen it happen first hand. Although I was only involved in marijuana, LSD and magic mushrooms, I got my supplies from dealers who offered free samples and I passed on the offers. Back in the late 60's, when I lived in Cleveland, I saw that the life of heroin junkies was not something I wanted to ever live in or die from. I retired from the business in the early 80's when crack cocaine came around along with gang violence over turf wars over territory.

[@dystopiagear6999]

The gateway drug bullshit only works on ignorant clods who have no understanding of the differences between causality, coincidence, and correlation. If you honestly think cannabis use causes hard drug addiction you might also believe that mother's milk causes mass shootings... after all, 90+% of murderers were breast fed so it must be true! LMAO. In every state with legal cannabis, opioid use abuse & overdoses have gone dramatically *DOWN* because so many former opioid patients and heroin addicts start using CBD or THC cannabis instead. That right there destroys the "gateway" propaganda.

[@michaelwilcox6090]

@awizardalso The real gateway drug is tobacco, though the systemites would never admit to that as there's too much profit in it. Brain scans have shown that once a person has used tobacco it lays a foundation for every other drug thereafter. I knew people who took speed, acid, cannabis of all kinds from grass to oil and they could always take it or leave it. They hadn't ever used tobacco and so could control all the other drugs. Most of the ex heroin addicts I knew couldn't ever seem to give up smoking tobacco. Tobacco is the most addictive drug going, and that's just a fact. People will still smoke tobacco even when dying of lung cancer or emphysema. The drug squad started the BS about cannabis being the gateway drug. Everyone I knew who had never smoked tobacco could easily control cannabis.

[@dystopiagear6999]

@@michaelwilcox6090 yep. I also know plenty smokers who can easily control or quit cannabis but can't quit tobacco. The next worst gateway drug is alcohol - again, perfectly "acceptable" because the powers-that-be are heavily invested in it.

[@carl-cx9uh]

nothing changed just worst but a little safer?

[@bettymaiden4916]

I think all drugs should b legial and taxed its our choice what u put in your body not the goverments

[@andycapp8843]

Betty Maiden ......But it’s the governments responsibility via the taxpayer to care for, house, treat, nurse and basically cosset the mood swings, violence, social interruption of the drug user. That statement is one self-centred and ill thought suggestion I’ve come across today. The drug user, once hooked, ceases to contribute usefully in society and simply acts as a drain in all manner of ways. You really should think, not think again, do a little research and then place your fingers on keys. Have a great day.

[@matthewcunningham1810]

I wonder which is safer for pain raw opium or big pharma magic pills.

[@harrygaul4475]

I'd do like the video says about just using the leaves off the plant for mild pain.

[@flemishtemplar3766]

the first one. Even raw seed have some mild painkilling effect if chewed upon them. It's moderation offcorse. When i look at the overal big pharma's industry and their pills, i'm sometimes shock with what i read in the description. Also when i talk to users of certain kind of medicine like SSRI's (for example citalopram sandoz), it seems to have the opposite effect of what it should do + Alot of side effects that the user can't control.

[@felipeagonzalez8373]

Nothing like good heroin.

[@quester09]

cannabis

[@enriquemireles8947]

Wonder what kind o music they were listening to. No AC/DC.

[@lisakaufmann498]

Try K.I.S.S.

[@steveabernathy7835]

What a shame. I was born 100 years to late !

[@Don-kr5tp]

One problem is that they have adopted the California version of anything goes......as long as it is PC (progressively controlled), I lived there for many years and I would live there again. Way too cool for me. No, not the temperature.

[@maggiemae7749]

Yes Colorado is just like California

[@PACOSBBQ]

prescription drugs are NO BETTER! and just as addictive. Life is about self control. If you don't have any, you are a very young soul.

[@erin19030]

Hasn't change all that much.

[@thomaslinton1001]

Bad and proud of it.

[@aprilmoore2917]

Yeah - "loose and relaxed..." Alaska's humble beginnings were like that too.

[@bethcox1283]

April Moore My hometown of Sitka Alaska used to be the capital of Russian America..

[@bethcox1283]

When the Russians owned Alaska Juneau wasn’t that big it probably didn’t exist until the United States bought Alaska..

[@aprilmoore2917]

That's sounds right...I think there was only a few settlements until the gold rush - and then Fairbanks was established with gold miners and ladies of the night...

[@reeenzdyt4458]

What's up from Anchorage alaska

[@bethcox1283]

REEENZ dyt hello my friend ._.

[@johnpanos2332]

nice show. bayer a german company is mainly known for aspirin but i think i read somewhere that heroine is a copyrighted name of bayer. it was an answer to morphine addiction. hemp production was too much a threat to the plastics industry so weed was outlawed.

[@geraldthompson4633]

Is there a documentary explaining chinas open meat markets and origins of avian flu and now covid19

[@jacquesblaque7728]

Wrong. It's not the "open" markets; the dangerous product is the "bush meat", pangolins in the case of covid-19, where micro-organisms that evolve in wild animals populations migrate to the human population.

[@MrJm323]

8:20 . .....No, no. ....."Joss" is pidgen for the Portuguese "deus"; it's a god or "idol". A "joss house" was a Chinese temple. "Joss sticks" were the sticks of incense. ....Maybe pellets of opium were indeed called "joss buttons" by the Whites, I don't know; but the whites would have known that a "joss house" was a Chinese temple. ....Did a particular Chinese merchant set up an opium den in the back of some temple? Maybe. But the term "joss" was not a term for opium. Will someone explain to Dr. Convery that "joss house" was not another term for "opium den", but rather a Chinese folk religion temple.

[@stevenkincannon8688]

It's a slang for opiates to this day, though it originally referred only to opium in smokable form.

[@normanmcneal3605]

They don’t call it dope for no reason. I’m still against the fed gvt nor any gvt legislating morality. Fine , fee, penalty , or tax? This is our fault because we want our gvt to legislate morality

[@TheTallMan50]

dopamine

[@Paul-gz5dp]

Marijuana is for the most part harmless, unlike cigarettes and liquor. Liquor causes more deaths than everything else combined. The guy at the end said it best they are what people make of them, as I have been stoned from things that some doctors say can't get me stoned. Other things that I had had for pain are said to have really addictive effects, that I have never seen and over all people make more of a big deal about drugs of all kinds than they should. One thing that is needed is some form of regulation so that people do not get poisoned or cheated. The only way that all medications can be safe is to know how much that they are getting and how much is within a volume or weight. Also things such as strychnine need to be a felony to add to things to be used for ingestion. There is a real need to make sure that all medications and foods are what is listed on the label, and that way people can make an informed choice if they are going to take something or not. I hear and read about the dangers of opiates, but for someone with chronic pain over the counter medications are far more dangerous than opiates when someone is taking a known amount as opiates can also cause liver and kidney failure but at levels far beyond what will cause most to stop breathing. Just taking tylenol at the maximum listed for a long time and drinking liquor is a deadly combination, yet very easy to get and from what I've heard a painful death that lasts for a number of weeks. Best thing is to see a doctor for proper diagnosis when there is pain.

[@stephenstewart9242]

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