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Article #164: Controversial Drug Author Calls for the Legalization of Heroin.

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Wade Agnew probably knows as much about When the Australian Capital Territory
heroin and the law as anyone. He used it Government tried to set up a heroin trial
for three decades, was a successful in Canberra; the national capital, to
heroin trafficker for ten years, and has save lives and administer pharmaceutical
studied the legal status of heroin heroin to selected long term addicts in a
continually since first discovering the safe and supervised environment, the
drug at University in the late 1960's. Narcotics Control Board intervened. The
"My affair with heroin has been an extreme variation in the strength of
on-going one. I fell in love with it the street heroin is a real problem, and the
first time I tried it; as a medicine for cause of many overdoses, as is the lack
what ailed me, it was second to none." of medical supervision and intervention
The author of the recently released when needed. The Board controls the
autobiography "Cheating the Hangman: True issuing of licenses allowing countries to
Confessions of a Heroin Trafficker" Wade grow legal opium for the pharmaceutical
is calling for the immediate legalization industry. They told the Federal
of heroin. Heroin trafficking gives you a Government in no uncertain terms that it
very unique perspective on its status in risked the Tasmanian opium poppy crop if
society. The ongoing campaign of they allowed this to happen. A compliant
denigration is orchestrated, widespread and conservative Federal administration
and unrelenting. As Goebels said, if you caved in to this blackmail. This
repeat a lie often enough, eventually unaccountable organization wields
people WILL believe it. Wade writes in enormous power. Holland has regularly
his book; experienced its pressure to repudiate
"With heroin systematically demonized their liberal drug laws, but stands firm
since the 20's, it wasn't surprising most in the face of on-going attacks. Read
thought it evil incarnate, an extremely more about the legal status of heroin at;
dangerous drug, and a force against all Also read this sample chapter from the
the good in society. But in truth it author's book;
wasn't toxic for the body, the brain was THE GRASS IS GREENER:
where the action occurred, and it was The Australian heroin market in the
some smooth operator. They weren't 1970's got a huge leg-up from the Royal
monsters, just in exile from a society Commissions into drugs. State police
they refused to recognize. added the booster rockets. All the
The orthodoxy fused notions of anarchy, national attention was now focused on
violence and Bolshevism, into a marijuana ignoring the growing heroin
hyper-negative highball, now impossible culture, a lens sharpened by the murder
to unhitch the harness. That willful of a crusading politician in Griffith,
ignorance was a source of frustration and the cannabis capital of the country.
anger. It imprinted on their self image, People wondered why so few were being
colouring their interaction with the arrested, and nothing confiscated. Were
world. Why were drunks amusing, junkies cops benefiting from the grass trade?
sinister? They were thought a harbinger Suddenly the heat was on, questions were
of a heinous moral meltdown, a role they being asked. Why were crops being
took on with relish." discovered only after the intense press
Originally set up by a Christian coverage? The speculation continued
fundamentalist as a vehicle for his moral apace.
humbuggery, the "International Narcotics This was all music to the ears of the
Control Board" is now entrenched as an budding heroin importer. With eyes now on
instrument of US foreign policy and the marijuana trade it went underground,
control, and with the organization in its leaving markets open for a drug capable
pocket, the United States of America uses of soothing the nerves of jaded hippies,
it as a propaganda tool; dictating to the popular, and instantly more effective
world drug policy that serves their than years of studying at The Happiness
agenda and their interests. And make no Institute. My mission was delivering
mistake, it's a powerful tool. forbidden fruit from foreign shores with
This evangelizing does enormous harm to forensic efficiency, right to your front
individuals around the globe, as well as door. While the new medicine was timely,
promoting an illegal trade that fosters some burning money would get their
and entrenches organized crime, in the fingers singed.
same way that prohibition directly fueled Millions of dollars worth of smoke was
the Mafia in 1920's America; "ignorance seized, while heroin still reached arms
on an industrial scale". Making heroin unhindered. My business had quadrupled in
illegal robs the medical community of the six months, so I was well aware it was
number one pain killer on the planet, and cannibalizing the drug trade. Foisted on
criminalizes those who choose to use it. cannabis smokers, the drought entrenched
This is something that the author knows a corrupt system with an avalanche of
from personal experience, as a successful white-powder cash.
drug trafficker in the 1970's and 80's. But the grass was always greener….






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