Posted on 07/11/2002 11:49:56 AM PDT by dead
Faced with some of the world's strictest anti-drug laws, some addicts in Malaysia are sniffing fresh cow dung to get high.
An official at the National Narcotics Agency said yesterday the problem was small but growing among addicts who cannot buy drugs.
Trade Minister Rafidah Aziz was quoted in The New Straits Times newspaper as saying she wanted the government to deal with addicts who sniff cow dung, glue and even polystyrene smoke. She did not elaborate.
"The cow dung emits gases like sulphur, and addicts sniff on these gasses to get high," the official at the agency said on condition of anonymity.
Despite harsh anti-narcotics laws that call for death by hanging for drug traffickers, Malaysia does not have legislation to cover such acts as cow dung sniffing, the official said.
"The problem is not very serious yet, but we are worried as this method means addicts can get high for free," the official said.
Malaysia, a nation of 23 million people, had more than 200,000 drug addicts. About 40,000 of them are repeat users who had not kicked the habit despite undergoing government-funded rehabilitation programs.
Malaysia approved a law last month that allows for punishing hard-core addicts who repeatedly fail rehabilitation with five to 13 years in prison and six lashes from a rattan cane.
AP
Oh, oh, Now, you have done it. There is going to be a run on bread and shoe polish at the supermarkets. Better stock up while you can.
The ones the government fails to shoot will enjoy a long life in prison. We, on the straight and narrow, will pay for their food, the housing, their medical care, their education, and their utilities.
And if we refuse, we can join them in the next cell.
Thank God for government! Where would we be without them?
Well, it might not protect them against radiation, but it will make them smell better.
I distrust the government in many ways, but I am not quite that far gone.
BigMack
Gee, now I see why some of the LPers fight so hard for their drugs, without them things ain't so rosy.
How come nobody's snorting cow shit around here?
Maybe if we just spend $50 billion next year... or maybe a trillion... or a zillion...
Without the following (and the other standard drugs), I bet a few &9ers would....
Any product containing chemicals such as acetone, butane, fluorocarbon, methylene chloride and methanol, propane tetrachloroethylene, toluene, trichloroethane and trichloroethylene are all potentially open to abuse. Some can be found in adhesives such as glues and rubber cements; others in aerosols like hair sprays, paint sprays, deodrant sprays, fabric protectors or air freshners, or in cleaning agents such as degreasers and spot removers.
It may well be in solvents such as paint removers and thinners, polish removers, correction fluids, lighter and fuel gas as well as gasoline. Even fire extingusher containing bromochlorodifluoromethane is not spared. So is food like whipped creams involving the whipped cream propellant.
I am surprised a certain Freeper has not posted here that Cow Poop is a God given item and we should be able to do with it as we please. (including covering very fresh manure with a tin can on a hot day and drilling a small hole in the top to huff it, other methods include letting it dry and burning it and huffing the gasses produced in the burn process).
But the larger question is - Why do you care what some other idiot does with cow shit? I don't care if you sniff it, eat it, or make a cow shit hat out of it and dance the friggin' merengue.
Might work, if victory is what their after.
If they have "victory" they can longer demand the big government they drool over.
If all the drugs disappeared off the face of the earth, they'd outlaw onions or cow sh*t or gravel, rather than dismantle their beloved police state.
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