i made the mistake of going into a really trashy "headshop" this evening. headshop is the wrong word - the staff and target demographic had a vibe of 'stupid' that was hard to ignore (but anyway - i digress...!) and i was horrified to see that they were selling grams of random powder behind the counter.
now i've always thought the lies told to kids about "herbal" research chem pills in other stores were bad enough- but this was just mindblowing to me.
i asked what it was - all they would tell me was that one powder was speedy, the other was sort of euphoric (nice one, thanks mate)
at least when you hear about this in the USA or europe, they seem to be selling the chemicals by their proper name....
and at least with the godawful "legal party pills", they are sort of sold in a dosage range. at least it's easy to determine, easy to instruct. the guy in the shop can say "just take one" or whatever, but the irresponsible nature of selling vials of absolutely random chemicals by the gram in vials just seems negligent and exploitative.
how is some kid without milligram scales - fiending on stimulants - ever going to take a responsible dose?
sounds like a recipe for psychosis as this thread would indicate.
i remember buying mushrooms and truffles and changa from a store on the sly between 4 and 7 years ago...and the dosages they sold were always pretty mild - you'd have had spend a heap of $$ to have a really heavy trip (in the case of the dried psilocybes, anyway).
to me that made sense, as it stopped people from wigging out and drawing heat to the business - or far far worse; doing themselves serious harm in the process. yes, those drugs were illegal, but in small doses - they're fucking SAFE.
i really hope that the 'speedy' one didn't contain MDPV or anything similar, but i have my suspicions. these kids have no idea what they're taking - a deliberate choice on the vendor's part - and some sleazy fuckers are getting rich off it.
it seems like these bastards are just going full-throttle in the money-making, in the knowledge that regulations inevitably tighten and they won't have this "legal drugs" market available to exploit forever. fucking soulless if you ask me. they know it is unsustainable, so they're not holding back, just being blatant as can be. when some kid wigs out and the media gets a hold of it, the industry will have seen it coming - i just sincerely hope that it blows up on them before anyone gets hurt or fucked up.
as much as i hate the regulation of drugs and paraphernalia - and the police intruding in people's lives (ok, i admit that i hate the cops altogether) i really hope the retail outlet in question faces some legal ramifications for this.
i mean - society looks down on meth dealers, but selling arbitrary powders (that are likely to be far more damaging and dangerous if it is peevee) is ok? i mean, if the law is going to pursue anything, i wish it would be this unlabelled, unresearched bullshit - it is being sold out in the open, for chrissakes. and the people buying it probably think it's safe and ok because it is in a slick looking package in an apparently legit shop.
the real sickening irony for me was that all the bongs they were selling were these fucking "oil pourer" things. and i've seen police with sniffer dogs randomly roaming the streets of perth lately too - looking for cannabis.
fuck that! such hypocrisy - such laziness.
the state doesn't care about people's wellbeing - the war on drugs is such a fucking sham.
the idiots who advocate prohibition have created this situation of people guzzling random chemicals for kicks - there are so many illegal drugs that are safe when taken responsibly.
sorry (again) about the rant, but this shit really drives me insane.
