Good god....that articles a shocker...It really is just duplicating what numerous 'health experts' are actually saying...
It fails to consider:
- Very, very, very, very few people inject bzp
- Theres been no study associated with how the drug use has escalated and it seems more than a little unlikely that anybody at all has escalated from popping party pills to injecting them as Dr Lee Nixon, addiction expert, seems to think. The more likely explanation is that they've taken to needles with another substance and switched to bzp when it hasnt been available.
- Has the honorable Dr Lee Nixon considered the alternative? Does he really believe that making bzp and criminalising bzp is either going to prevent users injecting with incredibly easily obtained illicit supplies of it, or using other more dangerous substances?
- Wouldnt pushing it underground, severely stigmatising users, creating a blanket of propaganda around the drug and causing the users to turn to less well informed and shady characters for their supplies and information simply heighten the risks surrounding injection such as a failure to bother taking safe precautions etc?
- Has anybody actually considered the cost benefit analysis that Matt Bowden is calling for to weigh off potential harms such as increased medical harm from greater alcohol/ illicit drug use, the cost of law enforcement, imprisonment, the social cost of criminal convictions VS any potentially harm to this incredibly small minority of people injecting bzp.
Its simply trying to use a 20 tonne weight to crack a nut. If "The weight of evidence from across this body of research is that BZP presents more than just a low risk," Dr Ashley Bloomfield of the Expert" Was in fact true, why is ALL evidence couched in terms of 'potential' harm, when there are IDIOTS out there every weekend going awol taking twenty times the reccomended dose that they brought from teh dairy, underage, with no dosage information or regulation and STILL having 'possible serious consequence'. EVERY indication is that the harm is transient, and yes, its possible somebody could die.
I read today in the newspaper that fireworks in australia may have caused a dog to maul a girl to death. Lets ban those. What purpose do they serve other than aesthetic pleasure?
People die every year from allergic reactions to peanuts. What purpose do these serve? Again, aesthetic pleasure, they taste good in peanut butter, lets ban these.
In America, something like ten people a year are taken to hospital with pool balls lodged in their mouths. Their all fine, but they COULD have died by having their airways cut off. Lets ban pool.
Thousands upon thousands of people die every year from smoking related illness, hundreds of families are torn apart by alcohol related violence, murder, death, violent robbery, drunken accidents. Chronic alcoholics are a drain on the medical system. Thats all sweet though, thats been happening for ages and we have a very good idea of the long term consequences of abuse (ie, death, brain damage, cancer) so they can stay.
BZP though, we hear that some idiots have been injecting that shit, lets ban that, our medical experts tell us that the however many million doses that have been consumed COULD have resulted in some seriously adverse effects for some people.
COCKS
/end rant
WAIT, one more;
http://xtramsn.co.nz/news/0,,11964-6751428,00.html
CHECK IT OUUUTTTTttt, now people who use bzp are rapists...
