Very cool : Opiates in Cartoon

[cbone]

Very cool Cartoon I found from the 1930's with opiate use in it. :)

"In A Chinaman's Chance (1933), Flip and his dog track down the notorious Chinese criminal, Chow Mein. While investigating in a Chinese laundry, Flip stumbles into an opium den, inhales the stuff via opium pipe, and begins hallucinating." [wikipedia]


Sorry I don't know how to embed a youtube video on these forums so here's a link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0vJS4rSNiQ

What do you all think? Comments please!

[ryan]

Believe it or not, this is why opium was first made illegal -- because of racism.

Chinese people had opium dens and would often invite white women to come smoke with them.
Eventually they got addicted and turned into opium den prostitutes.

You could imagine how the white politicians of the time felt about this.

Good cartoon though, I enjoyed it.

[ryan]

I was just reading the wiki article on opium...

Can you believe this?

Legal production in India is much more traditional. As of 1996, opium was collected by farmers who were licensed to grow 0.1 hectare of opium poppies (0.24 acre), who to maintain their licenses needed to sell 4.5 kilograms of unadulterated raw opium paste at a fixed government price of 320 rupees ($8 US) per kilogram. One kilogram represents two days' work for a family.

Forced to have a family work for two days, and then sell that shit for 8$ a kilo?
And then companies like purdue convert it to whatever they want, and sell that shit for millions.
How is that right?

Seriously, if it were legal for me to purchase opium, I so wouldn't mind paying a few grand for a kilogram.
Everybody wins. The farmers get what they deserve, and I get to get high.

Why is the world so messed up?

[nick]

Why is the world so messed up?

People mostly.

[ryan]

People are the absolute worst.
I'm anti-social and proud.

[pinn3d]

People are the absolute worst.
I'm anti-social and proud.
yay-- me too....

[Opiyum]

Believe it or not, this is why opium was first made illegal -- because of racism.

Chinese people had opium dens and would often invite white women to come smoke with them.
Eventually they got addicted and turned into opium den prostitutes.

You could imagine how the white politicians of the time felt about this.

Good cartoon though, I enjoyed it.

It was a very particular kind of racism. Sexual in nature. They don't want the white man mixin' in with the "zipper heads". Because god knows when you take that first hit of opium your morals and values just fly right out the window and that window happens to be in a dirty room in the back where they beat you over the dead with hogs leg and take your shoes.
That and taxes.

[clinton]

Racism is also responsible for the marijuana ban

[duck]

I was just reading the wiki article on opium...

Can you believe this?

Legal production in India is much more traditional. As of 1996, opium was collected by farmers who were licensed to grow 0.1 hectare of opium poppies (0.24 acre), who to maintain their licenses needed to sell 4.5 kilograms of unadulterated raw opium paste at a fixed government price of 320 rupees ($8 US) per kilogram. One kilogram represents two days' work for a family.

Forced to have a family work for two days, and then sell that shit for 8$ a kilo?
And then companies like purdue convert it to whatever they want, and sell that shit for millions.
How is that right?

Seriously, if it were legal for me to purchase opium, I so wouldn't mind paying a few grand for a kilogram.
Everybody wins. The farmers get what they deserve, and I get to get high.

Why is the world so messed up?

That is corrupt government policy, no more, no less. They got in the way and skim all of the profit through frivolous licensing. If they would let the farmers take their product to their market they would get what they deserved.

Ahh, government.

[scikid]

Believe it or not, this is why opium was first made illegal -- because of racism.


Same with Cannabis. So much institutionalized racism in drug laws (and the legal system in general). Coke v Crack anyone?

[tui]

Cute clip. I love those old school cartoons. Humour has changed over the years.

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[Narkotikon]

Anyone remember the movie / book "The Joy Luck Club?" Remember that scene where the one mother eats sticky-sweet dumplings filled with opium, so she could kill herself so her "daughter's spirit would grow stronger?"

I thought that was interesting. No other point really.