GOOD! Less one giving money to terrorists.
heroin addiction is seems to be spreading quickly, it is only one step from oxy to heroin. I hear that some people are switching back and forth, smoking the junk, and that it has been causing a very bad pneumonia that can kill.
1. So? Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. I don't do drugs because I like having my brain function as it should. If you do the recreational pharmacology thing, expect no sympathy from the likes of me if you roast your frontal cortex into oblivion.
2. This wouldn't be going on if we decriminalized drugs. Yes, people would undoubtedly do stupid stuff and end up dead and bloated in a pool of their own vomit. But it wouldn't be because some illegal drug dealer hit them with a "hot shot". Just like we no longer have to worry about wood alcohol being used to make a jar of whiskey go further.
Now watch the Drug Warriors and other various Nanny Stater's use this to champion more of the failed policies that got us where we are today...
Multiple Darwin award winners!
As sad as this sounds, it is hard to see a downside. I don’t think we are loosing some Einsteins, maybe, some lawyers, but, that is a good thing.
And they want legalize drugs.
A couple things in this article are making my spidey sense tingle.
-The issue of “pure” heroin isn’t a new one at all. I remember reading an article - in 1987 - talking about the difference between heroin during the days of “The French Connection” and present day (again, 1987). The alarm was being sounded because the 25% (on average) pure stuff of the 60’s and early 70’s had given way to as much as 90% pure smack, at far lower prices.
-I’m also wondering about the other 10-40% in this 60-90% pure heroin. Of course overdose is always possible, especially if the stuff you’re injecting is two or three times stronger than you’re expecting. However, it’s also possible that there is an adulterant at work here. There was a rash of deaths on the east coast back in the early 1990s associated with a batch of heroin nicknamed “Tango and Cash”. As it turns out, the heroin had been mixed with fentanyl tranquilizers, which was causing cardiac arrest. If there currently are users dying within seconds of consumption, it could be something else is in the mix along with the heroin (which, admittedly, is dangerous enough).
But if there are no consequences for irrational or irresponsible behavior, there's really no such thing as irrational or irresponsible behavior.
“An Associated Press review of drug overdose data shows that so-called “black tar” heroin — named for its dark, gooey consistency — and other forms of the drug are contributing to a spike in overdose deaths across the nation and attracting a new generation of users who are caught off guard by its potency.”
This stuff has been around a long time.
Enough dead junkies might encourage the others to quit.
Natural selection at work...
The users kill themselves off and cut down the demand. What’s the downside?