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TheMachine1
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12 Mar 2007, 8:03 pm

Kosmonaut wrote:
$4.85 per ounce.
Thats probably a massive amount of money for the time.
I don't know how to work out the inflation, but i would estimate the price of an ounce of heroin to be around $1500. I reckon $4.85 was worth a bit more in them days.
Probably why they state an effective dose as being 1/48 gr. = 1/1344oz.

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http://www.measuringworth.com/calculators/compare/

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In 2005, $4.85 from 1901 is worth: $114.95 using the Consumer Price Index
$96.78 using the GDP deflator
$529.46 using the unskilled wage
$706.87 using the nominal GDP per capita
$2,696.90 using the relative share of GDP


Though purity likely less in 2005.



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12 Mar 2007, 8:12 pm

In America and Switzerland there are currently trials of using MDMA to cure Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and it has been found to be very successful so far. Other research indicates that taking 1 E for marriage councilling is as effective as 6 weeks without.

Also ketamine has been shown to have very effective antidepressant qualities.

At the end of the day prescription meds are drugs like illegal drugs. It's just governments have ingrained fixed beliefs into peoples' minds that are based on control more than facts.