Mescaline became a popular sensation in the mid-twentieth century through Aldous Huxley's The Doors of Perception, after which the word "psychedelic" was coined to describe it. Its story, however, extends deep into prehistory: the earliest Andean cultures depicted mescaline-cont…
Background -- Overview -- The birth of the drug war -- Damage from the drug war -- Crime -- Public health -- Civil liberties -- Social cohesion -- Your tax dollars at work -- The federal government's case for the drug war -- The perception of the drug czars -- The czars defend t…
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fromOECD health policy studies
"To this day, the perception persists that China was a civilization defeated by imperialist Britain's most desirable trade commodity, opium - a drug that turned the Chinese into cadaverous addicts in the iron grip of dependence. Britain, in an effort to reverse the damage caused…
