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  1924 Democrat Narcotics Plank: Recognizing in narcotic addiction, especially the spreading of heroin addiction among the youth, a grave peril to America and to the human race, we pledge ourselves vigorously to take against it all legitimate and proper measures for education, for control and for suppression at home and abroad. Subsidized, paywalled academics nowadays announce as fact that the German mark sold at 17000 to the dollar in January 1923.( link ) Yet according to the December 1928 National Geographic Magazine, p. 667, the mark was at 7000 to the dollar in the first days of January, 1923. Which version do you believe? After 32 years' reading these exhortations to look away from relevant facts, I believe none of them. Instead I call attention to recorded facts all of them struggle to omit, elide, blinker, blank out and ignore . Here is a newspaper chronology of the year 1923.( link ) Observe that "habit-forming" drugs are mentioned exactly once March 1st, ...

  Readers saw in Prohibition and The Crash how U.S. Call Money rates skyrocketed when Congress decreed beer and wine felony drugs with the 02MAR1929 Five & Ten law.( link )   Once the League of Nations Opium Advisory Committee recommended, and the League itself adopted replacing markets with meddling on a global basis in its 1929-1930 sessions , the largest and most competent pharmaceutical companies in the world understood they had again been singled out for rough handling. I.G. Farben was--despite the prior restrictions that brought on WW1--the world's fourth-largest corporation of any kind in 1931. All through 1930, Committeemen from opiate-producing nations waved reports of drug seizures like bloody shirts as rhetorical openings for the heaping of scorn and opprobrium. What changed in 1931 was packing the committee with violently prohibitionist "victim" members to draw up regulations to forever ban laissez-faire markets from the face of the planet . Fanatical pr...