Posted on 10/02/2013 12:48:16 PM PDT by nickcarraway
When it comes to altered states of consciousness, humans are nothing if not inventive. A number of new synthetic drugs, opiate painkillers and other substances have emerged recently as increasingly popular among partygoers and drug addicts. And some of these substances are alarming health experts and law enforcement officials.
Here's a look at five of the most potent of these street drugs.
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2C-P
A little-known synthetic hallucinogen with only a brief history of use, 2C-P is reportedly a long-lasting and very potent drug. Its intense psychedelic effects don't begin until a few hours after a person takes it, but they can last for 10 to 20 hours, according to law enforcement officials.
At a concert in Middlebury, Conn., in September, four teenagers were hospitalized after collapsing almost simultaneously — police suspect 2C-P was the culprit, according to the Hartford Courant. "It was like a light switch went off," acting Middlebury Police Chief Richard Wildman said in a press statement. Officers used CPR and a defibrillator to treat a teenage male who had stopped breathing and had no pulse, the Courant reports.
Butane hash oil
Also known as amber, honey, wax, ear wax and by its initials BHO, butane hash oil is a highly concentrated form of the active ingredient in marijuana (tetrahydrocannabinol or THC).
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Suboxone
Buprenorphine, marketed as Suboxone, is an opiate painkiller that's often used to wean addicts off of more powerful opiates like heroin and hydrocodone. Substance abuse experts praise its success at treating addictions, and about 3 million Americans have used it for this purpose, according to the National Pain Report.
But a report from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) found that the number of emergency room visits involving Suboxone had increased by a factor of 10 from 2005 to2010.
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>> How about plain cyanide?
Strychnine!
Since the 1960s...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7Nffq0bOgE
Might be better to just make it clear all federal aid will be yanked completely from drug users...
Nope, just getting tired of a revolving door approach to enforcement that has instilled almost no fear of consequences to repeat offenders is all.
I had respect, and quite some fear, of my father and his belt if I knowingly disobeyed the rules while growing up.
Why shouldn’t adults share anything like that anymore? God knows many kids now have never had to worry about discipline being raised in society now, perhaps it’s not too late to instill that message somehow is all I’m suggesting.
Why not cut off all federal aid to everyone?
Or maybe instead of poisoning and/or beating the drug users we just let them get as much as they can afford of the pure, pharmaceutical grade stuff? It’s a lot cheaper for the taxpayer and the drug abuser who can’t kick the habit will be dead from overdosing in short order. The problem burns itself out like Ebola. That’s how it worked 100 years ago until the busybodies decided to try and save people from themselves.
I have been saying that for years. Start spiking the shipments and the drug shipments and problems will grind to a halt.
People who want to do drugs will quickly learn to grow or make their own if they want to survive. That will instantly localize the growing/use and any problems associated with the drug growth/use..
International drug cartels and the drug trade will come to a grinding halt within days.
Buying drugs off of anyone would be playing Russian roulette.
If everyone is force to grow/make their own stuff then they will not contribute to the breakdown of the society to as great of degree.
I have been saying that for years. Start spiking the shipments and the drug shipments and problems will grind to a halt.
People who want to do drugs will quickly learn to grow or make their own if they want to survive. That will instantly localize the growing/use and any problems associated with the drug growth/use..
International drug cartels and the drug trade will come to a grinding halt within days.
Buying drugs off of anyone would be playing Russian roulette.
If everyone is force to grow/make their own stuff then they will not contribute to the breakdown of the society to as great of degree.
You raise a good point about it shutting down the international drug trade, which is a very good thing...
Why not cut off all federal aid to everyone?
Well Duh, that is the idea solution, we need to be like the progressives and start nibbling the cookie the “other way”
Just like they did to get us to this point.
Start by cutting funding to the druggies...
That just costs even more money. Someone has to get them to piss in a cup, then someone to take it to the lab, the lab isn’t going to work for free, so there’s another palm to grease. Then you have to have regional and local bureaucrats to push all the paper. Just stop writing the checks to everyone. It’s going to happen anyway...that much is just 8th grade math.
No mention of hopeium in this artical. That is the most addictive and dangerous of them all. It causes a loss of reality, reliance on others for basic needs, the ability to discover racism everywhere and a hysterical fear of anything seen as a traditional family, a clean lifestyle or remotely patriotic. It also causes blindness to deviant behavior, jihad, invasions of illegal immigrants and democratic hypocrisy.
It seems you have the Death and Tyranny taken care of. Where does the money come in?
You’re a little loony.
It seems you have the Death and Tyranny taken care of. Where does the money come in?
You’re a little loony.
Thankfully just a little rather than a lot.
My Tougue is firmly planted into my cheek by the way.
Whew! That’s a relief!
Ever heard of a /s type sarcasm tag? Had me going there for a while! LOL
It must be battle fatigue. I’ve been going at it for three days with a big government “social conservative” here on FR.
Whew! That’s a relief!
Ever heard of a /s type sarcasm tag? Had me going there for a while! LOL
It must be battle fatigue. I’ve been going at it for three days with a big government “social conservative” here on FR.
The point I was trying to make was that poisoning illegal drugs would be slightly better than the no knock raids which kill wholly innocent citizens as opposed to law breakers.
That is if the Government actually wanted to control illicit drug use, personally I am more of a libertarian in which i say, make certain drugs legal and other ones have a “drug hotel” like a modern day opium den, that user pay to get high which funds rehab centers. All ran by private enterprise with some government supervision.
That being said I have little compassion for those who slowly poison themselves with illict drugs then ask for handout.
No mention of hopeium in this artical. That is the most addictive and dangerous of them all. It causes a loss of reality, reliance on others for basic needs, the ability to discover racism everywhere and a hysterical fear of anything seen as a traditional family, a clean lifestyle or remotely patriotic. It also causes blindness to deviant behavior, jihad, invasions of illegal immigrants and democratic hypocrisy.
Post of the day!
No tongue in cheek on my part. I mean it 100%
It would quickly cause dealers to turn on suppliers.
And users to turn on dealers.
The organization behind organized crime would fall like a house of cards.
It’s the same way they did with ammunition during the Korean war. It was to the point that the enemy was afraid to use it’s own ammunition and guns for fear of them being more deadly to them than to us.
If it’s going to be a war, then fight to win. None of this half hearted crap.
Pro private and church provided charity here.
I don’t think that poisoning thing would be a good substitute for no knock raids. Trading one evil for another is never a good idea. What about the toddlers who occasionally get into a caretaker’s stash?
If the drug war was about drugs, we would seal the southern border. It’s about power and inuring Americans to regular rights violations “for their own good” of course.
Stop public assistance. Legalize it all. Fund the government beast via consumption taxes on retail merchandise.
Watch the videos on YouTube. All sorts of exposed bone and tissue.
I'm with you on everything but the national sales tax. If you want to give fedgov the ultimate excuse to void our last bit of privacy and do away with cash, a national sales tax would be it. Go back to tariffs, import dutues and excise taxes. Let the likes of Walmart and Target deal with the taxes when their crap from china is being loaded onto their trucks at the dock.
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