I think, generally speaking, there is still a pretty well-ingrained taboo against drug use in our society. “Why shouldn’t you use drugs?”, one might ask. “Because they are dangerous”, would probably be the most common reply. I agree with that to a certain extent, but not nearly as much as the Puritans among us who like to employ scare tactics to dissuade kids (and the rest of us whom think of as kids) from using drugs. I keep thinking of a certain anti-drugs TV commercial campaign from my youth which used an egg as a metaphor.
My personal opinion is that most drugs have persisted as long as they have because there is such a thing as a safe dose. Everyone from Barack Obama (and his two predecessors) to the 15% or so of high-schoolers who have admitted to trying drugs know this.
Then I watched this article. There is substance abuse and then there is this stuff. This reminds me of that scene in Robocop where the guy drove the van into the toxic waste dump.
http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/us...ussia-to-u-s-.cnn&hpt=hp_t3&from_homepage=yes
The problem with designer drugs like krokodil and research chemicals is that there is little if any data on what they do to humans or even rats. Well, I guess we have some data on krokodil now. There’s plenty of clinical trials done on “classic” drugs like pot, LSD and plenty of others: they’re called the 60’s. DDs and RCs are a whole horse of a different color. We have no idea how the body will react to them. Even if the chemical itself is safe, the liver can metabolize it to something that is extremely toxic.
The unintended consequence of the zero-tolerance, “drugs will fry your brain” mentality is that the just-say-noers have lost all credibility in a time when there really is seriously dangerous shit going around in synthetic “drugs” that are being pushed. But the boy has cried wolf too many times, the kids aren’t going to listen now. What a shame, for once the boy is right.
My personal opinion is that most drugs have persisted as long as they have because there is such a thing as a safe dose. Everyone from Barack Obama (and his two predecessors) to the 15% or so of high-schoolers who have admitted to trying drugs know this.
Then I watched this article. There is substance abuse and then there is this stuff. This reminds me of that scene in Robocop where the guy drove the van into the toxic waste dump.
http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/us...ussia-to-u-s-.cnn&hpt=hp_t3&from_homepage=yes
The problem with designer drugs like krokodil and research chemicals is that there is little if any data on what they do to humans or even rats. Well, I guess we have some data on krokodil now. There’s plenty of clinical trials done on “classic” drugs like pot, LSD and plenty of others: they’re called the 60’s. DDs and RCs are a whole horse of a different color. We have no idea how the body will react to them. Even if the chemical itself is safe, the liver can metabolize it to something that is extremely toxic.
The unintended consequence of the zero-tolerance, “drugs will fry your brain” mentality is that the just-say-noers have lost all credibility in a time when there really is seriously dangerous shit going around in synthetic “drugs” that are being pushed. But the boy has cried wolf too many times, the kids aren’t going to listen now. What a shame, for once the boy is right.