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Mike Powers Article - backup of Issy's thread

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Ismene

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Mike has his two-pennorth at the guardian today. He told you he would...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/apr/26/hidden-dangers-of-legal-highs

First thing you notice is the scare-mongering "Soaraway Sun" tabloid title - "The Hidden dangers.." not "Millions of people use these and 99.99% are fine..". As you'd expect he starts off listing alleged deaths and health scares they've caused. Then seems to contradict himself by making the point that "All the deaths attributed to mephedrone years ago were fake.." (but all the ones attributed to Nbomes nowadays arn't fake...right?)

Then he mentions classic MDMA-style so called "research". Example, "We injected a massive amount of cemfetamine directly into a slice of a rat brain and "it seemed to twitch". Not "We gave a live rat an oral dose of camfetamine, exactly equivalent to how a human would take it reaching similar concentrations in the brain, and...er...absolutely nothing happened and it lived a perfectly healthy life". That kind of useful research would be boring wouldn't it?

Then right at the very end, when everyone has stopped reading, he mentions a few positive things like methoxetamine curing a guys depression and that mushrooms are far safer - failing to mention that mushrooms were legal for a few years from 2004-2007.

So there you have it. Does anyone recognise anything they said to Mike in an interview?
 
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.
Click to expand...
 
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...
 
Knew he wasn't after truth and actual information from the moment I saw his thread :|
Puh-Ri-Kuh...
 
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"..
 
''Surrey police said that 18-year-old Charlie Barker from Wrecclesham, Farnham, died after attending an illegal party in a tunnel under Chobham Common, where he took a drug – 2CI – through a nasal inhaler. 2CI is illegal in the UK, and is commonly eaten, not consumed via a nasal inhaler. Toxicology reports are currently unavailable, but it is possible that 25I-NBOMe was responsible for the death of Barker, a talented and popular graffiti artist, since that is a more usual way of taking it''

So, Mike Powers article, mostly an assault on the NBOMe's, Although Guardian! Oh! ''Toxicology reports are currently unavailable''. Where are you going? Publishing reports as fact!

Again, a massively contradictory paragraph:

''The first death attributed to mephedrone in the UK was that of Gabrielle Price, a 14-year-old from Worthing, West Sussex, who became ill at a house party where she had taken the drug together with ketamine. It was widely reported that she had died as a result. However, a pathologist's report showed the cause of death was broncho-pneumonia following a streptococcal A infection, and that the drugs had played no part''.

Very naughty Mr Powers.

I don't support legal highs as such, steps can be taken to reduce any potential harm, although this can never be wholly reduced. The unfortunate thing with this article is, that it promotes most drug deaths we read about, to be deatsh due to the substance itself. The majority are deaths not induced by the drug itself, but down to other combining factors, such as mixing an upper with a downer, or consuming alcohol. At the end of the day, you make your choice, and take your chance, when you take any drug. Mixing substances together is a reckless coin toss. Additionally, included in the article is a report of someone accepting a substance from a stranger, and ingesting it. Drugs from anyone, even yourself, that have not been tested, will always be an unknown drug, and another chance you take.
 
Shropshire crew called it Meow! I told yous this ages ago. As BHM says, though, no-one pays attention...
 
^ Mixing uppers and downers is fine.. The whole "confuses your heart / brain" thing is a complete myth..

The only dangers lie in the user not feeling the affects of one (normally the downer) as much as they'd like.. causing them to take more leading to accidental overdose..
 
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