Posted on 02/24/2006 6:33:25 PM PST by Loyalist
Actually, to those with true ADHD, cocaine would have the same calming effect as Ritalin! Few doctors prescribe Ritalin anymore... the drug of choice is now good old fashionned "speed": Dextroamhetamines (Dexies, as in "Dexie and the Midnight Runners"), now sold as Adderall; Methamphetamines (the basis of "Crystal Meth"), now sold as Desoxyn;
Junkies in the making!
Even cocaine in my youth wasn't really all that much of a stimulant that I could tell. I guess that's why it never really interested me.
honestly it is their country, we don't buy oil from them, the product grows naturally everywhere and has been used locally in native form for time immemorial...
There is tremendous demand for cocaine in the US and anyone who understands economics 101 knows that prohibition creates a black market which artificially increases prices, including presumably the price paid to coca farmers in s. america compared to other crops they might grow. If anyone here thinks this multi-billion dollar cash, tax-free industry has not corrupted some elements of our own government (state, federal, local) you are in serious error.
I know there are some who support ripping every enumerated item in the bill of rights out in the name of the WOD without even the pretense that progress towards the 'goal' has to be demonstrably made to justify this.
Mate, huh? I may have to try some of this stuff.
As NDT said, Coffee is stronger.
It's pure beauacratic stupidity that we are bothering to fight the actual plant in a foreign country, especially when we have a leader that's actually good on fighting the drug, but recognizes the impossibility of disrupting a harmless activity that's been part of the native culture for centuries.
Are there bad side effects with the powerful stuff?
The nickname for this brand is "The Dirty Little Girl"
Porque no se lava nunca.
If you look at the chemical structure of ritalin vs. cocaine, there is a fair amount of similarity.
IS that Sarah Jessica Parker in the middle? HHOK!
Yum
I vaguely remember the story of how the coca plant got introduced to the outside world. It seems a British visitor observed the workings of a mine over there, and noted that the laborers seemed impervious to pain, and showed no ill effects from the cold, though scantily clad. It astonished him that, though the workers were so old that in Britain they would have long retired, they still managed to perform continuing heavy labor without complaint.
It was only a few years later on the followup, that it was discovered that the workers weren't in their late 60's, but were in fact in their late 30's! The effects of the leaves, chewed for so long, had deteriorated their health so significantly that they were mistaken as elderly miracles, rather than burnt out husks.
And we complain about cheeseburgers...
Hadn't had that stuff in years! Feels illegal though, passing the cup and steel straw around:) Spent a super bowl sunday some years ago ignoring football and drinking Mate and playing guitar with 3 lovely hotties from Buenas Aires. Groovy time - as older generations might say.
When one of my European cousins dropped by to visit last year I turned him onto drinking maté and sent him on his way back with a kilo bag of Malta Yerba Maté. Since he can't get the stuff over there I have been forced to become his supplier.
Of course Argentines also start drinking wine with meals at a very young age as well. I think that accounts for the lower heart attack rates. However, Argentina also boasts more psychiatrists per capita than any other country. I think that is probably due to the politics though.
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