How Safe Are Your Illegal Drugs?

Wired.com ^ | 2:00 a.m. Oct. 18, 2001 PDT | Jackie Cohen

[IVote2]

Put this in your pipe and smoke it at your own risk: Terrorists could poison drug supplies and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration probably can't do anything about it.

Politicos have warned that dirt-cheap, high-potency heroin will soon flood world markets and cause an epidemic of overdoses in the wake of the Taliban evacuating opium supplies before the first bombs hit Afghani soil. But this is just the tip of the iceberg.

[IVote2]

I found this interesting. Will druggies even read it? Somehow I doubt it.

[Wolfie]

Remember folks, BUY AMERICAN!

[IVote2]

LOL!

[MrLeRoy]

Because the drugs are illegal, health officials are not authorized to monitor the purity of such substances

Obviously the drugs should not be illegal.

[sinkspur]

Users of heroin take the same risks as those who engage in casual sex with semi-strangers.

Russian Roulette.

[gnma]

Which Union is the 'Local Heroin Dealers 306' getting their supply from this year?

[MindBender26]

What would happen if the drug supply was poisoned?

These junkies, these main drains on our society would all quietly die, and costs of providing welfare, medical care, etc. for these leeches would go away too.

[Wolfie]

I'd also have to question why the terrorists would poison the very commodity they sell to raise funds. The free market rules as always, and their source of revenue would soon dry up.

[onedoug]

"What would happen if the drug supply was poisoned?

Many in Congress would be ill.

[MindBender26]

So we work on one group at a time.....

[Wolfie]

Victory Garden! An idea whose time has come again.

[TheOtherOne]

Legalize for the War against Terrorism
Keep US Drug Dollars at Home!

WOT - WOT - WOT

[ZOOKER]

What would happen if the drug supply was poisoned?

What happened when the Nixon administration dusted Mexican pot crops with paraquat?

Disaster for the Mexican growers, but there were more than enough producers to fill the demand for non-Mexican weed (Columbia, Jamaica, Thailand, etc.).

Short-term panic for US addicts, and long-term death for one of Afghanistan's few sources of income.

[LibWhacker]

All junkies should kick the habit, and fast! Not only do they run the risk of shooting up dope of unheard purity and thus killing themselves, but they run the further risk that their dope might be contaminated with anthrax spores, or other bio-chem agents.

[Joe Hadenuf]

Why are Congress, the Senate and school teachers not required to undergo routine random drug testing? When many folks in the hinterlands are required to?

[Squantos]

If drug supply was poisoned then doctors would have to actually study in school.........versus just getting a license to dispense drugs that only mask a illness.........Stay Safe !