http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2013/jun/16/designer-drugs-legal-highs
Why the war on drugs has been made redundant
For every ‘designer drug’ the authorities ban, clandestine labs are churning out a new version. No wonder the law can’t keep up…
Vaughan Bell
The Observer, Saturday 15 June 2013
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When Germany identified the substances and banned them in early 2009, new cannabinoids, again never before seen outside the lab, had replaced them within weeks and this is what has been happening ever since. One gets banned and another novel substance takes its place almost immediately. Professional but clandestine labs are rifling the scientific literature for new psychoactive drugs and synthesising them as fast as the law changes. In one of the most interesting developments, a cannabinoid detected in 2012, named XLR-11, was not only new to the drug market but completely new to science. Several previously unknown substances have turned up since. The grey market labs are not only pushing new substances on to the drug market, they are actually innovating drug design. The human testers select themselves of course, unaware of what they’re taking, sometimes leading to disastrous results. Information about the dangers of new substances is usually nonexistent.
The whole process has also been an unwitting experiment in drug policy. Despite the free availability of substances as pleasurable as already banned drugs, we have not seen a massive increase in problem users and drug mortality rates have been falling. Furthermore, even with the newly introduced “instant bans”, drug laws are simply not able to keep up.
Currently, it is barely possible to detect new drugs at the rate they appear. It has long been clear that the drug war approach of criminalising possession rather than treating problem drug-users has been futile. The revolution in the recreational drug market is a stark reminder of this reality. The war on drugs has not been lost, it has been made obsolete.
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OK, can we now decriminalize “drugs”.
Let’s recognize reality!
The FDA and Big Pharma are in bed with each other. The underground drug market is how the REAL free market should operate.
Consumers Reports, Underwriters Laboratory, and informed people are our only defense.
Since time immemorial, humans get high. 10% or so become addicts. The percentage varies but that 10% seems to be a floor.
Instead of wasting resources and ruining lives, let’s get back to basic medicine.
Argh!
But politicians and bureaucrats like to use force on victims of addiction because it is PC and their easy to campaign against.
Meanwhile the politicians and bureaucrats are the real problem. And, some of them are criminals.
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INSPIRATIONAL: Some of what is screamed out in public is truly “ABSURD”
Tuesday, May 10, 2022https://www.dailysignal.com/2022/05/03/the-age-of-the-absurd/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=ODI0LU1IVC0zMDQAAAGEN6lkVYy7Qeh_Yxo1_IRnzTZh9sNXe5H5seFIcbQsvr7Z8zogCtsbhx1d46UtUYZHC-dVZwkTtAGTcWtkcbm8GlmtJe0Y2Rk5gQ5FDRojrJBTbwp5
The Age of the Absurd
Dennis Prager / @DennisPrager / May 03, 2022
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No. 11: America is systemically racist.
The manifest absurdity of this claim is easily demonstrated. In the past decades, more than 3 million black people have immigrated to America from Africa and the Caribbean. And probably tens of millions more would like to. Are all these people fools—choosing to move to a systemically racist country? Are they ignorant—unaware that America is systemically racist?
The non-absurd know the answers: All these blacks are neither fools nor ignorant. They know how lucky they are to move to America—because this country is so tolerant and so overwhelmingly nonracist. People don’t move to countries that hate them. No Jews moved to Germany in the 1930s.
We live in the Age of the Absurd. The only question is, why? I think I know the answer and will discuss it in a future column. In the meantime, share these 11 absurdities with friends and relatives, especially with those who actually think they make sense.
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I remember a news clip from the corporate media doing a story about how the “evil Republicans” were slowing immigration and that there were long lines at out embassies seeking permission. One fellow in the line, who had been waiting for days, when asked why, replied: “America has fat poor people.” To me, that was the best answer I’d ever heard.
I see immigrants from India opening all sorts of businesses because it’s easy compared to the corruption in India. I see Oriental immigrants whose children seem to succeed in Gooferment Skrules against the odds. I see Mexican immigrants working their butts off at hard labor jobs and proudly showing off their new work truck for their efforts.
“Systematically racist” is something I don’t see. Pockets of idiots who either can’t or won’t try — of all races — seem to seek to blame “society”.
I will stipulate that the Gooferment “welfare” is designed to keep people poor and it is hard to break the cycle. But many do.
Let’s get the Gooferment out of the way.
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