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From: tedrick@ernie.berkeley.edu.BERKELEY.EDU (Tom Tedrick)
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Subject: Re: Where are drugs (opiates) legal?
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Date: Wed, 26-Feb-86 18:37:18 EST
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In article <156@proper.UUCP> john@proper.UUCP (john) writes:
>
>     Does anybody out there know of any countries where the use of opiates
>and/or other drugs for personal or recreational purposes is legal?  I'm most
>interested in places where there are *no* restrictions, but I'd also like to
>hear about places where there are just fewer restrictions than there are in
>the U.S.
>
>     If you do know of anywhere, do you have any information on things like
>rates of addiction, negative effects of drug use on the lives of citizens
>(especially as compared to effects in countries where the drugs are illegal),
>overall satisfaction with the legal status of drugs, and so forth?
>
>					 John Bashinski
>					 {dual,amdahl,qantel}!proper!john

This may not be exactly the information you are looking for, but ...

I had an Indian girlfriend a few years ago. When we were in India,
they would stock up on all kinds of legal over the counter drugs
which aren't available in the USA, and bring suitcases full of
the stuff back here (don't ask me why customs let them get away
with it. I watched as the suitcases went through inspection.)
There are all kinds of things you can get there that aren't
available here. I remember one drug called "Baralgin" or
something like that (made by Hoffmann-LaRouche, I seem to
recall) that was really potent for getting rid of headaches.
My girlfriend was dependent on (probably addicted to) the
stuff.

Anyway, I think there are lots of drugs available in other
countries that aren't available here, but it would be an
enormous amount of work to find out about them.