Drugs

[TPRJones]

Has anyone ever heard the second?

The second wouldn't be a brawl, it'd be a slow motion slapstick routine punctuated by long periods of giggling delirium.

[Malcolm]

Whether it's said to pregnant women looking for abortion access or epileptics, Texas wants you to know everything is bigger there, including the FUCK YOU.

Texas may impose a $1.3 million licensing fee for businesses under the Texas Compassionate Use Program if proposed rules go into effect, according to a recent Texas Public Radio report. The previous fee was set at $6,000.

The state program would give intractable epilepsy patients access to low-THC cannabis oil that is high in the nonpsychoactive compound cannabidiol (CBD).

For those of you unfamiliar with bud, THC is the part that gets you high and CBD is the bit that helps control pain and nausea. Basic chemistry and lab grade conditions allow for easy separation and concentration of the two. There are virtually no known side effects or withdrawal symptoms from CBD ... except for politicians being dicks about letting people have it.

[Malcolm]

Really?

U-47700 was developed by a pharmaceutical manufacturer in the 1970s as a possible alternative to morphine. Now, chemists in places such as China and Eastern Europe can make it with recipes published in online patent records and old scientific journals.

The DEA has filed to have U-47700 listed as a banned substance, but that order hasn't gone into effect yet.

You can't just fucking write a generic law that covers opioids? Are you fuckers that stupid?

[TheCatt]

I'm on oxycodone, every 4 hours. Of those 4 hours, there's about 30 minutes where I understand how people can be addicted to these pills, 1 hr where I feel normal, and 2.5 hrs of blergh feeling.

[Malcolm]

X v. PTSD.

[Malcolm]

Shrooms v. depression.

In two separate studies published Thursday, researchers report that trial subjects who received a single moderate-to-large dose of psilocybin got substantial and lasting relief from their profound distress. Among 80 cancer patients who participated in the two trials, as many as 4 in 5 continued to feel measurably less hopeless and demoralized six months after taking the drug than they had upon their recruitment.

And even years later, many reported they had gained -- and retained -- a profound sense of peace and meaning from the experience. Of 29 cancer patients who got psilocybin in a trial conducted at New York University's Langone Medical Center, 20 rated it as "among the most meaningful" events of their life.

"This drug saved my life and changed my life," said Dinah Bazer, a Brooklyn, N.Y., woman who was administered a single dose of psilocybin at a New York treatment center in 2011.

Why yes, it is another Schedule I substance as defined by the fucktards in the U.S. gov't.

In the United States, possession of psilocybin-containing mushrooms is illegal because they contain the Schedule I drugs psilocin and psilocybin. Spores, however, which do not contain psychoactive chemicals, are only explicitly illegal in Georgia, Idaho, and California.

Qualifications for Schedule I:

The drug or other substance has a high potential for abuse.
The drug or other substance has no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States.
There is a lack of accepted safety for use of the drug or other substance under medical supervision.

[Malcolm]

DEA isn't even trying to hide their incompetency or duplicity anymore.

Defending the government’s classification of marijuana as one of the most dangerous drugs, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration declares on its website that pot causes mental illness and lung cancer and leads youths to heroin and cocaine.

But an advocacy group says the DEA, in a legal filing in August, said it found no evidence to support any of those conclusions. The group, Americans for Safe Access, has asked the agency to remove discredited claims from its Web page.

Here's my favourite.

Youngsters who use marijuana are “15 times more likely to use heroin later in life.”

Bull and shit.

[Malcolm]

DEA still run by the stupidest, most anti-science, anti-thinking, shit-eating, motherfucking, knee-jerk, zero-tolerance reaction fucking asswipes in the country.

Hundreds of thousands of patients around the country rely on non-psychoactive CBD products to manage pain, inflammation, seizures, and other medical conditions. Hemp-derived CBD oil was, and continues to be, sold openly in American markets.
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To recap: The DEA introduced a new drug code for “marihuana extracts.” In the course of doing so, Rosenberg paused to consider the question of non-psychoactive cannabidiol (CBD). Rosenberg made it clear that the DEA considers all CBD to be illegal simply because it’s derived from a plant of the genus Cannabis.

Suck a dick and die, DEA.

Is that now the law? Not necessarily. A federal judge might well see things differently than the DEA administrator. In fact, there’s a lot of evidence to think that federal courts could and would invalidate the final rule as it pertains to CBD.

Note they tried this bullshit in '01 a month after the "Day the Terrorists Won Because They Made the TSA" attack, and it was shot down even then.

[Malcolm]

Heroin responsible for 25% of all drugs ODs, 75% of all OD deaths. But the dumb cunts in the present administration feel the need to rattle the saber over marijuana.

[GORDON]

Why is heroine epidemic popping up all over? Don't you still need poppies? I haven't heard of any poppy grows in peoples basements around here.

[Malcolm]

Why is heroine epidemic popping up all over? Don't you still need poppies? I haven't heard of any poppy grows in peoples basements around here.

Most "heroin" on the streets is extremely unpure. It's the synthetic shit they cut it with that kills you. Favourites include fentanyl and carfentanil. The latter is typically used to tranq large mammals the likes of which you'd see on safari.

[GORDON]

I think I heard I have a fairly close relative who just got busted for using, and possibly dealing. But I'm no longer on the family grapevine so I actually heard it from elsewhere.

[Malcolm]

I hope you like you tax dollars being pissed away uselessly, because James Comey is gearing up to ignore the lessons the last five decades have taught everyone with an IQ above 3.

Speaking in Virginia this week, FBI Director James B. Comey pointed to a classic anti-drug strategy to fight the current heroin epidemic: “Our job is to try to crack down on the supply, literally, to be very blunt, to drive up the price to make it less and less attractive for people who are addicted to pills to move to heroin,” he said alongside DEA Administrator Chuck Rosenberg.

Let's see how that works out.




Can the government declare war on health care so they drive those prices down, too?

[Malcolm]

Hey Jeff, stop trotting out dead people you don't know to fucking justify your pathetic, old, lying ass.

And I am astonished to hear people suggest that we can solve our heroin crisis by legalizing marijuana — so people can trade one life-wrecking dependency for another that’s only slightly less awful.

Slightly less? Take your own dick, spin it around 180 degrees, and shove it up your own asshole. That's rather insulting considering I've had friends of mine fatally OD on heroin whereas the ones who smoke bud are still alive. I want to know which one of Jeff Sessions's buddies rode the h-train too long and checked off the planet versus his stoner pals such that he's allowed to have a goddamned opinion that stupid without legally getting kicked in the balls.

Our nation needs to say clearly once again that using drugs will destroy your life.

Cool. Let's start with booze and tobacco, which kill infinity times more people every day. Then we're going to follow that up with a complete proscription of prescriptions of any sort, because ... shit, you know, drugs. What's that you say? The bud dealers don't contribute as much to your reelection campaigns as the other pushers?

[Malcolm]

Let's talk about a drug free America.

Holy fucking shit.

Unlike most of the developed world, the United States puts minimal constraints on aggressive marketing by pharmaceutical companies, whether the target is patients, prescribers, or medical and scientific societies. U.S. pharmaceutical manufacturers have been highly successful at promoting prescription opioids in this lightly regulated, profit-driven health-care environment.

Unfortunately, the genie is out of the motherfucking bottle.

Drug traffickers are becoming more advanced and more daring. Some even importing industrial pill presses to pump out highly dangerous pills. That are almost impossible to tell from real prescription drugs.

These machines are coming into the country at record highs. It’s happening all over the country, in New Mexico, in Florida, in California.

People are dying from counterfeit pills, made with a dangerous synthetic drug called fentanyl. A drug that’s 25 to 50 times stronger than heroin, and up to 100 times more potent than morphine.

But hell, it's totally time to put all this to the side and take on the danger that is marijuana.

[Malcolm]

Even the fucking Canadians aren't as stupid as our government anymore.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government will introduce legislation to legalize recreational marijuana the week of April 10th and it should become law by July next year, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to lack of authorization to discuss the upcoming legislation.

Motherfucking Canada is smarter than Jeff "Reefer Madness Is Real" Sessions.

[Malcolm]

This chart is awesome.

[Malcolm]

Henry Rollins on the insanity related to drugs in this country and how the government is full of shitheads.

the history of cannabis in America is kind of the history of America itself, because – at least from the Mexican Revolution to now – there's been a push against it. The Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970 – that's the one that started the schedules, and placed cannabis right there next to heroin. Come on! If that's not a scam, if that doesn't have an ulterior motive, I don't know what does.
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Marijuana gets brown and black and poor people thrown in jail, and when those people are in prison, someone makes a lot of money off of everything from toilet flushes to every meal. And that's all from the taxpayer. And you can stuff prisons with nonviolent criminals. With legalization, they are finding new ways to put people in jail for marijuana. A lot of teen busts. Don't think that these states all of a sudden are, 'Hey we're gonna be super cool, it's about time.'" They looked at how much money they make incarcerating against the profits they can make from regulating and taxing cannabis. And it looked like the cannabis wins out fiscally. But now they're double dipping. They wanna get all the cannabis money, but they wanna keep the prisons full.

Keep in mind that AG Herr Sessions has just instructed everyone to start being as harsh as possible and stuffing as many bodies into as many prisons as the law allows because JUSTICE YOU GODDAMN COMMIES!

"It's a gateway drug." To what? [Laughs] To alcohol? I mean, everything in this country's a gateway drug, so don't tell me that marijuana's bad when you're throwing alcohol at my head in every ad everywhere. You look at the ads: as soon as the rum bottle opens, it's women in bikinis and good times? It's a depressant, so don't tell me it's good times. Everyone's fighting and vomiting. And they need Uber to take them home 'cause they can't drive a car. I don't want to outlaw it, I just want no part in it. And to people who say, "Why don't you get your stimulation like a real American, with alcohol?" And marijuana's bad? Do you see any inconsistency or hypocrisy there? I sure do. Stop being such a hypocrite and overcome your bigotry.

Weed: dangerous as heroin. Alcohol: perfectly fine after we found out making it illegal just fueled organized crime and increasingly paramilitary-style police responses.

They said, "Look." I'm like, wow. My knees went weak. And then I sat up till about 5:30 in the morning watching everything come to a grinding halt. And I watched Drumpf's quasi-acceptance speech. He was in disbelief. He was winded. It was like someone said "look over here" and [then] popped him in the solar plexus. He [had] no swagger. He looked like he was about to get hit by a wave. All of a sudden it hit him 100 percent. And he realized "I'm the president?" And then you see the choices he makes. He's basically letting Pence run the show as he goes in vacation to Mar-a-Lago every weekend.

Throwing people in jail for weed is obviously more important than shutting down other things.

In 2014, the powerful drug killed more than 5,000 Americans, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The next year, nearly 10,000 Americans died of fentanyl-related overdoses. All opioids, including heroin and prescription painkillers, killed more than 33,000 people in 2015, the most recent year for which numbers are available.

Early death reports from states indicate that national data, to be released in January, will show an even steeper rise in deaths in 2016, said Matthew Gladden, an opioid investigator at the CDC.

This year and last, the deadly drug began spreading to more states. “We no longer have a situation of isolated outbreaks, but a major, sustained public health challenge with the supply of fentanyl,” he said.

Then again, since those people are more likely to die, it's harder to make money off them by unnecessarily locking them up. So fuck them.

[Malcolm]

Two ODs at one rehab clinic in one night.

"The staff members in charge of supervising recovering addicts succumbed to their own addiction and died of opioid overdoses," Hogan said.

[Malcolm]

Heroin is now #2.

Fentanyl deaths rose to more than 20,000 last year, up from barely 3000 three years ago, ­according to provisional data from the National Centre for Health Statistics. By comparison, deaths from heroin numbered 15,500 last year, up from more than 13,200 the year before.
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Mr Drumpf said last month that opioid abuse was a national emergency and added: “There’s never been anything like what’s happened to this country over the last four or five years.”

Well, unless you include the decade or so before that when doctors were handing out opioids like pez and got everyone hooked in the first place. Tell me again why we're wasting money enforcing anti-marijuana laws on any level?