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could you imagine if they tried this shit today, i mean this was less than 100 years ago. what if they sprayed our bud fields with something toxic.  MURDER!! someone call the wait there in on it

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they sprayed da buds in da 70's to make them cause cancer duhhh son wtf know ur historyy

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The Chemist's War

The little-told story of how the U.S. government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition with deadly consequences.
By Deborah Blum

It was Christmas Eve 1926, the streets aglitter with snow and lights, when the man afraid of Santa Claus stumbled into the emergency room at New York City's Bellevue Hospital. He was flushed, gasping with fear: Santa Claus, he kept telling the nurses, was just behind him, wielding a baseball bat.

Before hospital staff realized how sick he was—the alcohol-induced hallucination was just a symptom—the man died. So did another holiday partygoer. And another. As dusk fell on Christmas, the hospital staff tallied up more than 60 people made desperately ill by alcohol and eight dead from it. Within the next two days, yet another 23 people died in the city from celebrating the season.

Doctors were accustomed to alcohol poisoning by then, the routine of life in the Prohibition era. The bootlegged whiskies and so-called gins often made people sick. The liquor produced in hidden stills frequently came tainted with metals and other impurities. But this outbreak was bizarrely different. The deaths, as investigators would shortly realize, came courtesy of the U.S. government.

Frustrated that people continued to consume so much alcohol even after it was banned, federal officials had decided to try a different kind of enforcement. They ordered the poisoning of industrial alcohols manufactured in the United States, products regularly stolen by bootleggers and resold as drinkable spirits. The idea was to scare people into giving up illicit drinking. Instead, by the time Prohibition ended in 1933, the federal poisoning program, by some estimates, had killed at least 10,000 people.

Although mostly forgotten today, the "chemist's war of Prohibition" remains one of the strangest and most deadly decisions in American law-enforcement history. As one of its most outspoken opponents, Charles Norris, the chief medical examiner of New York City during the 1920s, liked to say, it was "our national experiment in extermination." Poisonous alcohol still kills—16 people died just this month after drinking lethal booze in Indonesia, where bootleggers make their own brews to avoid steep taxes—but that's due to unscrupulous businessmen rather than government order.

for full read, http://www.slate.com/id/2245188/?GT1=38001

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One of my counsellors spent time in mexico while on his mission(mormon) and he said one day a man came into his office covered in blood and frantic. He got the man calmed down and got him a washcloth then the man told him he had just killed 3 men. The story is he was off tending his fields when he saw a fire from the direction of his house. He went to find his house in flames and his wife shot dead in the front yard, his kids were inside and already dead. The 3 men came walking up from a truck parked on the road, they were soldiers for some cartel and had been trying to push him off his land for years. He knew then what had happened and without hesitation grabbed his knife and killed all 3 of them in a rage.

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Yea, Cartels fuck everything up. Why can't people be peaceful and be fine with "just getting by." People that get through life using violence and murder should be set loose upon themselves.

I'd love it if America for some reason just went "hey Mexico we are killing everyone in a cartel."

But sadly I also think America shouldn't do shit like that. I don't think we need to be isolationists, but damn do you think the U.N. could get by without America? (the answer is more than likely no)

But going back to your story, that is what really moves me. Imagine being that man. In one day his life was completely ruined. Who knows, he might of even felt bad for killing those three men. (I hope not though) Who wants to go to Mexico and kill (people in) cartels?