Thailand's Latest Craze

[Jabberwocky]

So are they able to take any drug that alters consciousness? Like nitrous at the dentist etc.

 

[Jamshyd]

Generally, Islamic law gives medical necessity the upper hand (but as with all religions, you'll find oddities amongst extremists). Of course, the authority for that would be the doctor. I would imagine that in the case of Ethylene Glycol poisoning, Alcohol is allowed since it would be the antidote.

 

[Stuck]

Kratom is an endemic local weed with properties similar to marijuana: you can buy it anywhere in Thailand, for a few baht.

Kill me now. If kratom gets scheduled because of these ass-backwards articles I'm going to turn into hulk.

 

[drunken_etard]

this kinda sounds like a hoax. But if its not thats crazy. Mosquito coils. wow that just seems very unhealthy and gross. They should just mix the krantom and codeine. sounds fun

 

[Stuck]

Reading it a second time, it DOES sound like bullshit. A bullshit story for a slow news day. Kratom and codeine? Doesn't even make sense...competitive action for receptors - a waste of codeine or kratom depending. I would rather just eat kratom. Bullshit, this journalist should be hanged.

 

[Kakkoii]

Coca-Cola, cough syrup, boiled kratom leaves, and crushed-up coils of mosquito repellent.

So that's how mosquito repellent actually works!

We use the repellent and the mosquito's get high and go float away in a dream land!

Those lucky mosquito's


(I'd really like to know what's actually in those tho...Since when does mosquito repellent come in COILS? Isn't it usually a spray.... This COILS concept confuses me..)

edit: NVM, Quick google search brought up the product lol.
http://www.walgreens.com/store/product.jsp?CATID=100531&id=prod4053

I've never heard of this before . Very interesting....

edit2: Uhhh.. Just thought... If mosquito repellent coils contained some sort of drug that effects you, Wouldn't people who buy and use these coils have noticed the effects? And there would be news and whatnot about it.. Or maybe it needs to be ingested =/. Don't know how the hell someone would think tho..""Oh hey.. Weve got caffeine/dxm/kratom mixed together. This should be great. But it's still missing something...hmmm.. Oh hey! Why don't we crush up mosquito repellant and throw it in! That should be great!""

sigh...


edit3:

I have an answer for you guys!

With a little searching around, I've found out that the Active ingredient in Mosquito Repellant Coils is d-Allethrin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allethrin

It is a class of Pyrethroids
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrethroid

Reading it, it seems as tho it's only works on insects. But perhaps it has some sort of enhancing effects when combined with other drugs?

edit 4:
http://www.iisc.ernet.in/currsci/feb102001/341.pdf
"Allethrin has no effect on insect
cholinesterase activity, but has stimulating action by
releasing acetylcholine (Ach) from the cholingeric ganglion"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acetylcholine
"In the central nervous system, ACh has a variety of effects as a neuromodulator, e.g., for plasticity and excitability. Other effects are arousal and reward."

 

[SonOF]

This is still not half as bad as those people getting high by huffing shit. At least two of those ingredients can give a legitimate high (DXM and Kratom)...

 

[pkt]

What a shitty drug.

 

[thugpassion]

alprazalam The " deflowering drug".

 

[jorder1010]

this article sounds like bullshit. btw, kratom is not like weed at all,
i dont think it is even structurally close.. between that and the
mosquito coil shit i call bullshit.

 

[stirfry]

this article sounds like bullshit. btw, kratom is not like weed at all,
i dont think it is even structurally close.. between that and the
mosquito coil shit i call bullshit.

you forget the rules of bullshit journalism. any drug that is a plant = like marijuana.

 

[Pomzazed]

I am a Thailand Native, where the article mentioned. so, this might be useful.

Well, I can confirm that the report situation is real. As the southern part is covered with power of (psuedo)islamic rebels. They burns schools, temples, shoots random local oftenly, so many children got unducated and/or become an orphanage. So this is basically what is "Cheap and around" (kratom native plant / syrup's cheap / coca cola around) that can make them high.

[islamic cant drink alcohol, religiously, so they use kratom, this might be another factor?]

As for more detailed information :
- Kratom (loads) are deep-boied and strain extract out twice, mix to coca cola and some bottles of cough medicine, and repellent mixture.

There are several types of cough med they use, as far as i've observed.
- Codeine Type (codeine)
- Benadryl Syrup (diphenhydramine + (too much) ammonium chloride)
- Opiate Type (containing some opiates + promethazine)

Repellent also varies for those pyrethroid.

So, you can assure this news is not a hoax, though i dont like how the reporter writes (comparing kratom to weed, etc).

 

[qubert]

That is some ghetto stuff.

I wonder how a that stuff and a glue huffing combo would be.

 

[fukhed14]

thailand is nuts. people drinking mosquito coils, fucking caffiene meth pills, chicks with dicks all around at any price.... whata aplace, eh?

though id love to go and sip sizzurp next to a budha statue. ohhhhh how american i can be.