Why is heroin illegal?
Because, in the early 1900's, heroin began to be widely prescribed. It was touted as a miracle drug that could cure all ills. It was sold on store shelves. Unrestricted distribution created an enormous drug abuse problem. Meanwhile, medical research was learning what we now know to be true: heroin doesn't cure anything. It just gets you so stoned that you don't care anymore. After a quarter century of monumental heroin abuse rates (federal narcotics officials estimated that there were 200,000 addicts in the United States alone), in 1924, both houses of Congress unanimously passed legislation outlawing the import or manufacture of heroin. The sharp decline in legal pharmaceutical output didn't put an end to widespread heroin addiction, and the black market distribution began. The epidemic of abuse continued with only a gradual decline, until WWII, when distribution lines from Asia were completely cut off. Morphine is the synthetic version of heroin. As such, it is easier to control than heroin (which is refined from poppy plants), because you need a pharmaceutical lab to create it. Truth is, it is only legal until something better comes along. It was developed as the "non-addicting" form of the drug. We now know that to be untrue. Currently, however, no drugs exist that are both effective on serious pain and non-addicting.
Why is heroin illegal and alcohol isn't?
Money. The government makes way too much money from diactyl-morphine being illegal. Heroin withdrawal won't kill you, but it will make you want to die. Alcohol withdrawal will kill you. The effects are NOT the same. Alcohol works on your GABA receptors and I believe it does release some endorphins. Heroin works on your opiod receptors in the brain and also releases endorphins, but at a much greater level. Alcohol's effect on the GABA receptors is noticeable because your GABA receptors control sleep,memory,inhibition/anxiety, and mood to a certain degree. The government makes a lot of money importing illegal drugs, and lots of money from the prison system in the US.
Heroin and cocaine are illegal. Why isn't alcohol?
This is because Jesus converted water into wine so for a long time there was not a actual need to prohibited it as the European Christian powers had the powers over the world for the most part. Actually beer was even necessary because the water was so polutted.Only think about it, Islamic countries a big and awsome culture (we learnt a lot from them) alcohol is sort of illegal. That’s because actually alcohol is 1 of the most dangerous drugs around.If there wasn’t sort of a long culture around alcohol and it was just some professor who invented alcohol in 2018 it was illegal like in 2 years.Just look up the LD 50 of cocaine and alcohol and you know what I mean….
Why is heroin illegal but fentanyl isn’t?
Fentanyl has longstanding medical uaes.It's an anaesthetic and it's a pain killer.The medical use of Fentanyl predates the illicit use by many, many yearsIt's been proven to be a very effective pain reliever for opiod/opiate tolerant patients (like cancer patients), who don't receive relief from large doses of traditional drugs, like Morphine.When Fentanyl is added to Morphine, it can have a tremendous positive impact on the patients who are tolerant to other, less powerful pain relievers.Heroin should be legal for the same reason. It can provide a great deal of relief to those who are suffering and who have high tolerance to other drugs. It should be regulated so that it can be used by doctors for the patients who need it.Thats my opinion from a medical standpoint, from a social perspective, legislation and controlled distribution to addicts should be administered to bypass the cartels and to reduce crime.
Why is marijuana, cocaine, meth and heroin illegal?
Validation of points taken well. MJ why not? Today's MJ is 3xs more powerful then when I grew up in the 60's with it all around the streets. Cocaine is the recreational drug of use. Meth No way to hard to control and to easy to get hooked for life. Heroin, No way. David Bowie's song Space Oddity is about his Heroin addiction " Earth (reality) to Major Tom (Bowie).... a junkie/ strung out on heavens high / hitting and all time low."
Is morphine illegal?
Illegal for what? To abuse and sell on the street, yes. To be perscribed and used according to doc instructions, no.
How did heroin get to be the #1 problem in illegal drugs?
Due the DEA! DEA! THE FAILED WAR ON DRUGS! THIS IN PARTICULAR THE FAILED WAR ON OPIATES! They called themselves caring shuting down pill Mills. Yes some doctors did need to be shut down! Problem they went overkill! FDA began cutting pill supplies being shipped causing shortages. Pharmacies price gauging. The way they swept let's use Florida. They would leave patients with nothing resulting in robberies of pharmacies, patients being followed, it was brutal! The CDC working with DEA, FDA brought in guidelines that would be fucking crazy and getting crazier! Leaving real pain patients and yes even cancer patients with no opiate pain medication in pain and suffering. Funding for rehabs cut give to the DEA for policing so it's impossible for one to get into detox/rehab based on income turning addicts away wanting help! This whole game they are playing is costing people their life! And torturing people in pain!!!!
What is heroin illegal when Oxycontin and Fentanyl are legal?
Oxycontin and Fentanyl are only “legal” if you hold a current valid script with your name on it. Buying, selling, using, etc these without a script is VERY illegal, as these are “controlled substances” when used without a script.FYI, cocaine is another “illegal drug" that is prescribable as an anesthetic, though “pharmaceutical cocaine" is virtually unheard of these days.Heroin isn't like this, because it has no recognized medical use (in the USA). In the UK, I'm to understand it's used (as “diamorphine”) as a painkiller for terminal cancer patients.Additionally, the street drug “heroin" is essentially “mystery meat,” as there's no telling what active ingredient (if any!) it contains. Actually, most “heroin" out there right now is predominantly a fentanyl derivative, with legit “poppy squeezin’s" hard to find…which is one reason the OD rate is so damn high.