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  When prohibition laws collapse the global economy, blame tariffs! Frankenstein's monster , like the Pure Drug law of 1906, the Hague Opium convention of 1909--even the UK/China Opium treaty signed August 1911 and the second Hague "Opium" (and much else) convention of 1912 seemed to be innocent, childlike creations. Yet the latter, signed in January 1912 brought war to the opium-producing Balkan states and political and financial turmoil to Andean Nations before the ink had dried... then caused WW1. How did all this come about?  American food and drug cranks  operating within the Anti-Saloon League and Prohibition Party had been galvanized into action after China's 1905 boycott caused the T. Roosevelt administration to take time out from shooting Filipinos to extend patent protection to German heroin patents in China (lest Americans be tempted to compete) . Newspapers and magazines were unstinting in their production of horrifying documendacities, mostly rewrites of ...