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ORIGINAL: Hippiekinkster

Which kills more people, opium or aspirin?

  Per capita of users?  That would be opium/opiates, Hippie.  Both are naturally occuring substances that relieve pain.  Only one turns users into junkie-scum though.

You sure about that? I cannot find a source that breaks out DIRECT drug-related deaths. Direct would be overdose, since moderate use really doesn't do much. No liver damage, no brain damage, no nothing, really.  Unlike the NSAIDs.
http://www.drugwarfacts.org/causes.htm

I have not ever read about a plant containing aspirin.

My doctor doesn't want me to take aspirin at all except for a 81mg tab per diem for cardio purposes, yet he gives me oxycontin 20mg. 3 times a day. I must be junkie scum, eh?

You really don't know what you are talking about, do you? Just repeating the same tired trash from the "drug warriors". Why don't you educate yourself, if possible?

Why is it we Progressives can always find source materiel to support our positions, and the Regressives just babble and beat their chests? Such a mystery.

        Hippie, your link says exactly the opposite of what you tried to argue in the first place, and that is without getting anywhere near a per capita of users standard.  Why do you assume you can just throw out bullshit and get away with it?

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Your statement about not knowing where aspirin comes from is pretty well contradicted by other posts, by you, on both sides of this one. 

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60 mg of oxycontin, daily?  I tend to reserve "junkie scum" for those on the illegal side of the market.  That dosage would produce a perma-stoned individual (whose personal opinion about their functionality would be irrelevant).  They might be occasionally amusing, but not someone worth the risk of trusting.  We've already established that your posts are completely inconsistent. 

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Hippie how can you have a white coat in a shade of blue ? Surely that would make it a blue coat !

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It is my fervent hope that you suffer a good long excrutiating bout of chronic pain, just to see what it's like to have to live that way. 

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How about letting the Troops rob the growers when they get paid?

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I'm sure I've forgotten something important.

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I obtained a pretty good working knowledge of German whilst being treated for chronic pain. CalamitySandra can verify this; she's German born-and-raised.

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How about letting the Troops rob the growers when they get paid?
Whatever money they find they get to keep!
Now THAT will stop it in a year or two!
They're not going to grow a crop if they know they'll be robbed.
Or, round up a few dozen growers in each province and hang them in public.
And as for the Taliban or al qeada we really do need to start using chemical and biological warfare.

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Or, round up a few dozen growers in each province and hang them in public.
And as for the Taliban or al qeada we really do need to start using chemical and biological warfare.

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It's THEIR job to get their shit straight. It's our job to eliminate threats and therefore protect our own. Allowing these fields to exist goes in direct opposition to that. destroy the fields. If those cowards wants to hide behind bullshit reasons like "it's all we know," and "the Taliban made us do it," then let them. They can be grouped in with the rest of the emenies then. I'm tired of loosing our countrymen daily to this bullshit.

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Call me a bastard for it I don't care, but I think when we eliminate a threat to us caused by the actions of others, it's not our responsibility to make them feel "okay" becuase we eliminated the threat. They are supplying to a known enemy. They are supply opium strictly for the purpose of creating heroin. Not destroying that threat because they've made it their livelyhood is a diservice to those who have given their lives in call to protect our country...that includes the innocent civilians in our country who die daily in drug related incidents. And the cops who are injured and killed in drug related incidents.

It is NOT the US' job to make things okay with these people after we take care of business. Maybe instead of growing opium for the last thousand years they should have been working on new technology and growth processes to make it easier for them to survive without the opium.

I recall several revolutions in world histories where people who were tired of being ruled by unjust gov'ts did something about. To the point of death or being snuffed out all together. Because to do toherwise was cowardice and unjust to who they are as a people. Come to think of it...one of those peoples was us. Call me a shit head for expecting people to actually fight for some level of freedom and if they don't want to then it's their damned fault for being "slaves" to the opium trade and the Taliban. And it's their job to fix that problem...not our's.

It's THEIR job to get their shit straight. It's our job to eliminate threats and therefore protect our own. Allowing these fields to exist goes in direct opposition to that. destroy the fields. If those cowards wants to hide behind bullshit reasons like "it's all we know," and "the Taliban made us do it," then let them. They can be grouped in with the rest of the emenies then. I'm tired of loosing our countrymen daily to this bullshit.

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As I recall...things can be that neat and tidy in the real world. A couple of bombs shut the Japanese up not too long ago for doing something not too different than what happenend in 2001.