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Guardian story - new drugs

StoneHappyMonday said:
The only sensible conclusion.

Thought the rest was a bit tired, nothing new to anyone here.
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This.

Bit of a letdown really. Same old, same old. Why bother to research and interview people when you could've just cut and pasted the whole thing together from selected snippets from more or less every other article on the subject? I'd like to think it was just the Grauniad editing the living shit outta the original as the bloke came across as pretty decent by journo standards. Don't they all when wanting soundbites though. Is essentially a glorified advert for his book presumably so would've surely kept any good stuff back for that. Wouldn't want to scare off potential buyers with originality or excessive use of facts now would you. Not when speculation and rehashing is more newsworthy.

Hohum. Hopefully the book will be better. Not that I'm likely to come across it. Seems a shame to be spending all that time researching and interviewing folk like David Nichols (not to mention esteemed BLers =D (am sure I spotted one in there somewhere :sus:)) for the sake of yet another cookie cutter article on legal/drugs that's big on risks and problems and small on conclusions or suggestions.

Also, am assuming the linkies in the text are chosen by the editor not the writer? Bloody hope so. Some Most of the linked articles were just appalling 8o
 
It's not an amazing article but it's an OK article and I don't see anything in it that makes me :X FURIOUS :X. Seeing as my (and, I think, BL's) normal (and correct!) response to mainstream articles about drugs is a mix of ridicule and fury, I think it makes a nice change. It's rare that anything remotely factual or logical is published about drugs in the press, so I don't see the need for long faces :)

And of course, it's boring and mundane to us, but we're not the target audience. I'm going to celebrate this article with a little guice!
 
The best thing about that article is the link to a big rubber duck floating into Hong Kong harbour.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2013/may/02/giant-rubber-duck-hong-kong-video

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What would impress me would be if any of these journos ever came back once they got their story to engage with the criticism. Admittedly I'd probably ignore the cunt accusations too if it were I. But legitimate criticisms have been made in other threads. Suppose our opinions only count if they work as handy soundbites. One day we will learn to lose all hope in the pricks. Except we won't cos morons will always give them what they need in the hope they might just possibly make good use of it for once.
 
For anyone wishing Mike Powers's articles were a few hundred pages longer. There's more...

Books blurb:
A few years ago, deals were done in dimly-lit side streets or on the phone via a friend of a friend. Today, you can order every conceivable pill or powder with the click of a mouse. But the online market in narcotics isn't just changing the way drugs are bought and sold; it's changing the nature of drugs themselves. Enterprising dealers are using the web to engage highly skilled foreign chemists to tweak the chemical structures of banned drugs - just enough to create a similar effect, just enough to render them legal in most parts of the world. Drugs such as mephedrone (aka miaow-miaow) are marketed as 'not for human consumption', but everyone knows exactly how they're going to be used - what they can't know is whether their use might prove fatal. From UK dancefloors to the offices of apathetic government officials, via social networking sites and underground labs, Mike Power explores this agile, international, virtual subculture that will always be one step ahead of the law.
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Interesting parallel to be drawn between Mike Powers regurgitating and reselling the same shite in numerous articles and RC vendors relabeling the same shite to get old stock shifted...
 
I got into the van today to hear the interviewer on R4 thanking Mike Powers. Would have been about 12.30ish I think.
 
Just before the explosion there was a forum attached to a vendor where people were referring to it as "meow cat"..
 
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