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.

No different than the paraquat effort. The intent was not to poison them, but add something that would make them not use the stuff. How little they know about the determination people have to get a buzz.

And some people want us to "trust the government."

{facepalm}

government still poisons people.

we call it big pharma now.

This article reminds me of the PARAQUAT poisoning of the pot crops in America during the Reagan Era!

government still poisons people.

we call it big pharma now.

You mean like how they put APAP in my Vicodin so that I can't OD on it? Stupid law like someone who really wants a vicodin high is going to give a rats ass about their liver?

Government Cripples you then gives you a crutch and says "see if it wasn't for us you could't walk" - Harry Browne

Paraquat predated Reagan.

"During the late 1970s, a controversial program sponsored by the US government sprayed paraquat on marijuana fields in Mexico.[8] Since much of this marijuana was subsequently smoked by Americans, the US government's "Paraquat Pot" program stirred much debate. Perhaps in an attempt to deter people from using marijuana, representatives of the program warned that spraying rendered the crop unsafe to smoke.

However, independent bodies have studied paraquat in this use. Jenny Pronczuk de Garbino,[9] stated: "no lung or other injury in marijuana users has ever been attributed to paraquat contamination". Also a United States Environmental Protection Agency manual states: "... toxic effects caused by this mechanism have been either very rare or nonexistent. Most paraquat that contaminates marijuana is pyrolyzed during smoking to dipyridyl, which is a product of combustion of the leaf material itself (including marijuana) and presents little toxic hazard."[10]"

It's not government I distrust. It's religious zealots running government I distrust.

And some people want us to "trust the government."

#3 | Posted by daprof

I trust the government just as much as I trust big business, which is to say that there's good and bad in everything. Buyer beware.

It's not government I distrust. It's religious zealots running government I distrust.

#9 | Posted by Sycophant

So....... you trust the pagans who are running it now?

Poisoning illegal drugs might be an excellent way of opening a new front in the "War on Drugs."

It's not government I distrust. It's religious zealots running government I distrust.

#9 | Posted by Sycophant

It's the secularist zealots I don't trust---then must be the government isn't trusted by too many folks.

Remember the Plutonium testing?

How many years before that became known?

How many people knew but didn't tell?

But, remember...like most conspiracy stories of recent past - somebody knows but would have told by now, right?

government in this country is nothing more than commonly agreed to corporate interests.

This article should be a wake up for all that support the major expansion of government we are witnessing.

Gonorrhea experiments on blacks, the CIA's MK-Ultra LSD experiments, exposing soldiers to depleted uranium, etc. If you think the gubmint is your friend, you're not paying attention...

Justice is Already Meaningless in the USA!!!

So the US Govt instigated "Murderously Repressive" tactics against its citizens? But its nothing new and its still going on....and on and on....like the "Minimum Manditory Sentencing" and the "3 Strikes and You're Out" laws are just more US Govt "Nazi Over_Kill" tactics that of course target mostly blacks,latinos and the poor...while the Zionist Banksters target everyone else! But as the USA steadily degrades into abject bankrupcy,poverty and anarchy,notions of right and wrong will all become meaningless anyway!

The government doesn't care about you, or your children, or your rights, or your welfare or your safety.

It simply does not give a fuck about you!

It's interested in its own power. That's the only thing.

Keeping it and expanding it wherever possible.

The other choice is anarchy, Ron. Or is a more responsible position to understand that we have elections and so wield ultimate power over the gov't we elect?

Actually, that's a false dichotomy, BetelG.

We can have a federal government that is limited, as our Founding Fathers, including George Mason, envisioned.

One way would be to implement term limits. Another would be to make sure that any law that affects one affects all, including those that make the law.

Repealing the 16th and 17th Amendments as another set of good steps.
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And of course, making me the "President for Life" so I could get these things in place -- DOH!