Fifteen people beheaded in Mexico, drug gang suspected

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9. Of course, but that's no one's business anymore than growing pot at home. The violence is about..

Business and money. The heroin trade in Asia has been going for centuries. It'll keep going long after we're gone. There are political links to the trade as there always when there's money, and the effect on governments. The world's most profitable businesses were once said to be oil, drugs and the sex trade. Things always happen around that.

Going back to the sixties, there was propaganda about pot. I remember my high school class being called to the auditorium and there were a thousand students, laughing their butts off when the police played a film and tried to tell us about the dangers of the killer weed.
Reefer Madness, I think it was, pretty campy film.

We knew heroin was dangerous and that it was highly addictive, so people avoided it. People where I lived didn't get involved in the stuff for medicine, they got into it to get high. So it was an optional thing and a social thing. But there wasn't a lot of money involved.