ANTHRAX FOUND IN COKE / MARIJUANA ? Fact or Myth?

[ars0n]

to be totally honest with you my mother just told me today that she heard people were lacing coke and weed with anthrax..i find this hard to believe considering its not contageous so, lacing with anthrax would only kill the person whos using the drug...so wouldnt it be alot cheaper and easier just to poison the substance? sort of scares me though, what are your thoughts? I want my buds to be safe! hehe
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I say NO to drugs.
BUT they don't listen.
© ars0n

 

[Griff]

She's probably talking about this story:
http://www.dancesafe.org/howsafe.php
Draw your own conclusions.

 

[PhreeX]

As a precaution, I would definitly avoid any and all marijuana....
As of now this is a myth.. it hasn't happened... and if I am not mistaken, the Afghan's export opium, they are not refining it into heroin themselves...
BUT LETS ALL BE AS PARANOID AS WE POSSIBLY CAN!
This is insane... we will re-vist this once there is actually some tainted dope out there..
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"I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don't care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is: 'What are they in a position to do about it?'" (William S. Burroughs)

 

[vibr8tor]

heh, your mom reads pill reports

 

[ars0n]

i would think its very VERY unlikley for pot to be poisoned...if anything herion or coke .. but what are your opinions?? If you ask me its pretty scary that the government really can do NOTHING .. im sure the whole drug scene is just going to be torn apart by media if anything were to happen... planting that drugs are evil into everyones mind. =\
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I say NO to drugs.
BUT they don't listen.
© ars0n

 

[Roches]

don't you SMOKE weed?
i haven't looked it up, but i have a feeling that there aren't any bacteria that can survive the 400°C or so that you must get from burning plant material.

 

[ars0n]

if you read the article theyre saying theres poisons that they can put in the spores of pot, and can survive under extreme temps.
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I say NO to drugs.
BUT they don't listen.
© ars0n

 

[Denial]

quoted from the dancesafe reprint of the WIRED article:
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Because the drugs are illegal, health officials are not authorized to monitor the purity of such substances -- not just heroin, but marijuana and ecstasy and other illicit drugs. This coming at a time when authorities are on high alert against bio and chemical attacks.
"We can't stop all the drugs from coming into the country," said Drug Enforcement Agency spokesman Will Glaspy. "Drugs are poisons in the first place. You don't know what you're putting into your body –- that's why people die from this stuff."
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The part that bugs me is the fucking DEA spokesman's comment "you dont know what youre putting into your body, thats why people die from this stuff"....
...right above that "Because the drugs are illegal, health officials are not authorized to monitor the purity of such substances -- "
Hrmmm lets fucking add 1 and 1 and get 2...
if the drugs were LEGAL and could be TESTED for content and purity, people wouldnt die (according to the DEA spokesman's logic), because youd KNOW what youre putting into your body.....
and so, less dead people is a good thing, right?
SO WHY THE FUCK CANT THE GOVERNMENT FIGURE OUT THAT LEGALIZATION IS A GOOD THING!??!?!?!
*steam pours out of ears*
somedays I hate the US govt
(note: my buddie was just arrested yestesrday for flingin tabs...really made shit hit home)
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[This message has been edited by Denial (edited 19 October 2001).]

 

[Griff]

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In response to the above:

Courtesy of WIRED.com
Original Article - http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,47659.html

http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,47659.html[/quote]
not a dancesafe article, it's a simple post they put up to inform the public

DanceSafe would like to remind everyone that although it is a possibility that this could occur, there is currently NO EVIDENCE that this is happening at all in the US. It is merely speculation. Therefore we ask that you take this into consideration and every place in which you post or repeat this article, please make the comment that nothing like this is actually occuring, and that it is just placed here for informational purposes only.
Keep the hysteria down.
Thanks,
Bryan Oley
Webmaster
DanceSafe.org

 

[Plague Bearer]

this is the most stupid fucking thing I've ever heard
WHY do you THINK your mOm would tell you that?

 

[PhreeX]

Wonderfull! Lets argue about how if we legalized drugs we could prevent all these problems! I bet such a debate would bring up fresh, new ideas that we have not heard before, and people will be able to act civil and mature!
Anthrax cut drugs... I am just surprised that it took so long for someone to make the post!
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"I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don't care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is: 'What are they in a position to do about it?'" (William S. Burroughs)