ayjay
Bluelighter
I read the Age article - I don't watch telly current affairs (except for #qanda because I am a twitter whore
).
My main concern is that alprazolam gets restricted - then we just have to stick around and wait for the next benzo of the moment. Remember flunitrazepam (Rohypnol)? That's what my mates were dropping on (in combo with smack) in the 90s. Got scheduled to S8 and virtually disappeared. Then we had the temazepam gel cap (Normison etc) surge in the early noughties - the gels got removed from sale in Australia and now we have had the lovely xannies causing all the grief. Guess what happens when alprazolam gets rescheduled? We'll just have to wait and see. Already I think we are seeing more zopiclone (Imovane) out there, and that's going to be fun and games too. When will we learn that supply-side strategies are a very blunt instrument and don't work too well?

My main concern is that alprazolam gets restricted - then we just have to stick around and wait for the next benzo of the moment. Remember flunitrazepam (Rohypnol)? That's what my mates were dropping on (in combo with smack) in the 90s. Got scheduled to S8 and virtually disappeared. Then we had the temazepam gel cap (Normison etc) surge in the early noughties - the gels got removed from sale in Australia and now we have had the lovely xannies causing all the grief. Guess what happens when alprazolam gets rescheduled? We'll just have to wait and see. Already I think we are seeing more zopiclone (Imovane) out there, and that's going to be fun and games too. When will we learn that supply-side strategies are a very blunt instrument and don't work too well?