a vaccine to stop you getting off on MDMA? it might happen...

[delroy]

From that article in the village voice does that mean that employers will be able to request that prospective employees get the drug vaccine before they start work or even before they apply for a job?
I am still at uni so am not too sure about what rights the employee has in terms of privacy but with blood tests and stricter controls on people applying what is going to stop large companies from setting conditions and if these conditions aren't met just telling the applicants that they aren't eligible? Is this a basis for discrimination or can companies just set these conditions?
I am guessing that if large companies want to ensure a drug-free environment that this is a fool proof way to go about it.

 

[mona]

I just can't believe no one mentioned Naltrexone before or after Ashke, essentially the same thing - used with very different principles behind it.. but essentially the same.
There is no way they could do it. Think logically about it - anyone with half a brain would realising that it is ADMINISTERING one drug, to STOP another. It's fucked. Just because it's classified as the "good drug" killing the "bad drug". Blah Blah.. it's utterly ridiculous, and by the time they ever got this approvd everyone who's got kids around "vaccination age" will have tried ecstasy and loved it, and therefore not wanting their kids ot miss out on the expeience... *in an ideal world*
Anyway, i'm just trying to highlight the ludicrousity (is that even a word?!?!?) of the whole situation.

 

[Peekingduck]

When and hopefully IF this ever happens, I put foward to the forum that we all pool resourses and buy an island just off the coast. We can term it the "100% Organic Human " colony or something.
I refuse to be manufactered like some comodity bought and sold by higher powers, that probably all Coke up occasionaly any way.
This no matter who they do it to is a vialation of our civil rights, and I freely take full responsibility (as does everyone) for my own body when using illegal-and might I add, legal drugs, no matter what mister Ralph lorren shirt, cantabury football shorts and deck shoes says about me "respecting" my body.
I am personally a Biotechnology student, and this is the sort of research that i can see getting completely out of hand. I realise that this is a good thing for the right CONSENTING people but it is easy to see, as stated that this sort of technology can easily be abused by powerful govnm.
Unfortunatly i think we must all be at least a little worried about these issues and I sincerely thank you for bringing it to our attention.
Peeking
-with a look of distrust for all multi-national corps, look on my face.-

 

[BigTrancer]

[deep sarcasm]
"Hello, can I take your order please?"
"Yes, I'd like two grams of coke please."
"Will that be normal coke, or extra-strength coke for the innoculated?"
"Extra please, I have antibodies."
"OK, you take care now, don't give any of that to non-immunised people, or they'll OD."
"Sure thing."
[/deep sarcasm]
BigTrancer

 

[*meth*]

this involuntary vaccination by parents could lead to possible legal disaster!!! i can visualize lawsuits from children against their parents about taking their freedom of choice (especially in the US).........i still don't think it is anything to worry about, might be administered to people with drug related problems , but only with the consent of the individual!!!

 

[el_nino]

THIS WILL RUIN MY LIFE!!!!!!!!!!
AND THE LIVES OF COUNTLESS PEAKED OUT TRAGEDIES

 

[GoNeGoOsE]

Alternate reality #1)
Stupid vaccine fucks up, serotonin production stumped FOREVER..Humanity loses ability to love, feel love, feel happy...
OH MY GOD...*getting the shivers*
Our kids would be going around "you remember how our grandparents used to experience this thing called HAPPINESS?"
Call me cynical, but if humanity doesn't watch it, that is what is gonna happen.
Alternate Reality #2)
MDMA is hopeless...NO MATTER!!! we have teletubbies, barney and seseme street to entertain us!!! =)))!!!!
Don't you all love the tubbies???
-flaps wings about in frustration-

 

[sunni]

My 2c: if people are incapable of getting high off or addicted to heroin/coke/MDMA/whatever, they will just find some other substance to abuse. I really believe that very few people get addicted to a drug because it's addictive - they get addicted because they want to permanently escape reality. These vaccines can't stop people trying to escape reality. They will just find an alternative route.
Also, i refuse to believe that 'they' would vaccinate everyone with drug antibodies, along with rubella or chicken pox or whatever. Surely the vaccination must be seen as a possible treatment method for addicts who want to get clean.
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to the crazy person, the normal one is insane

 

[Tarsarlan]

Hmmm, if one way to get around the effects of the vaccine is to just have a whole lot more drugs, then wouldn't that just drive the drug market skyhigh? If the supply is kept high enough, and the demand is still there (which it will always be unless humans as a species start to think on an entirely different level) then the prices will drop. Eventually it would cost the same amount to buy enough drugs to get the effect you used to. I don't really know much about how the system works, but that seems to make sense to me...
I really can't see support for this kind of overriding of free will being enough to make vaccination compulsory... voluntary maybe, not not compulsory...
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