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Trogdor
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posted October 08, 2004 01:43 PM |
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Designer drugs: the new evil?
This relates to a recent news story.
A woman was found dead after overdosing on a designer drug called Orange CK (named after Calven Klein). Another woman was hospitalised after overdosing on another designer drug, this time a drug called Red Mitsubishi. 2 men in Adelaide have already been arrested for the supply of these drugs.
But this is the worst part of it all. These people were told it was Ecstasy, but they infact contained PMA , a much more harmful party drug (Adelaide is the PMA capital of the world).
So the question is, comrades of HC, after all the dangers of designer drugs such as Orange CK and Red Mitsubishi, why are people still manufacturing, supplying and consuming these lethal party pills?
Discuss.
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Wolfman
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posted October 08, 2004 03:19 PM |
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So the question is, comrades of HC, after all the dangers of designer drugs such as Orange CK and Red Mitsubishi, why are people still manufacturing, supplying and consuming these lethal party pills?
It's being manufactured because there is a demand for it. Simple economic principle of supply and demand.
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Consis
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posted October 08, 2004 03:50 PM |
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Edited By: Consis on 8 Oct 2004
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Designer Drugs
The subject is of poison of course. It's all very relevant to the mean age group of this forum too. I have some extensive background in speaking with law enforcement authorities and being taught basic principles in my studies for nationally certifying under the Emergency Medical Technician services guidelines.
If people read only one thing in all my posts then let them remember this:
Drugs are considered illegal in most every country of the world. Not only does the selling of illegal substances adversely affect the economies of the countries they are being sold in but also destroy families, friends, and any person who uses such substances.
On the black market in any country around the world, an illegal substance such as a bag of cocaine is considered to be equivalent to cold hard cash. That is to say that, just like cash, this substance can be traded, bought, sold, or any other means of economic use as local currency. On top of this fact it is also without regulation. This means that if this substance is brought into an area or region that was previously without then that region is now in danger of a localized form of rapid deflation. The value of the local currency is actually in danger of being usurped by a more valuable commodity. The evil of this new economic predator is so insidious that an outsider looking in will find that the actual value of this new pseudo currency is not by choice but instead by relating to all the usual characteristics of a highly physically and mentally addictive substance.
That is the evil nature of this thing we call a drug(used in the context of my earlier paragraph). This is a thing of nature that actually has the ability to literally force a person to bend his/her will to being bent on doing nothing but consistently and relentlessly persuing acquisition of the substance they are addicted to. This means the person will have no loyalties, friendships, relationships, logic, or any other such behaviors except in the service of acquisition for the addictive substance. A person addicted to a drug of this kind will stoop to any means necessary to acquire it.
Of course we all know that in the end most of these illegal substances will kill the person addicted to them in one form or another. But what many people don't know is how the process of addiction begins usually. Most people do not simply wake up and decide to take cocaine(for example). It usually happens in a social setting among people you consider to be friends or peers. Sometimes a drug dealer may directly approach a person to sell the drug but this is actually a rare thing indeed. Actually drug dealers will usually sell their drugs to another seller. They know that law enforcement usually trace the victims back to the sellers and so the sellers mostly try to protect themselves in this way. It is also very important to remember that no person can know how their body will react to cocaine and other such illegal substances. That is to say that many people will say, "One try won't be enough to hook me like other people I've seen." Police officers and medical providers have found this is the number one statement people have reported they said to themselves who've survived the addiction. It is a fact that no one knows how their bodies will react. Remember that I say this.
Now let's think about what the term, "addictive substance" entails and how this is measured or defined. When you hear someone, such as a police officer or doctor, say that cocaine is very addicting they are talking about great the effect the drug has upon the individual who is hooked on it. That means that a highly addictive substance will hook a person on smaller amounts/quantities of the substance. Think of it as if it were snake venom. When you hear someone talk about the potency of snake venom you'll usually hear a reference as to how many people a single drop of the poison can kill. Now think about an addictive substance such as cocaine, heroine, or crack. These substances are so addictively deadly that it only takes a very small amount to cause a person to change their entire way of life into becoming devoted to the acquisition of them.
On top of all that which I have posted thus far people also do not realize the significance, size, or scope of this black market illegal industry. Think of it like a business that is free from all forms of taxes or regulation. Because it is a business of such largely possible income and growth, the distributors and manufacturers of the product are always looking to increase efficiency. This means that they act like a legitimate drug company in the sense that they want their products to be manufactured and designed for a low cost while having a high market value. These people have discovered numerous ways to engineer their illegal drugs for dirt cheap while benefitting from the substance's own uniquely addictive properties. That is the modern characteristic of drugs being sold today. Today we find that those horribly insidious drugs are now being made for a fraction of the costs they once were while the people using them find themselves even more addicted than ever before.
I hope anyone who reads this realizes how dangerous and deadly illegal substances are to themselves and the rest of the world.
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Roses Are Red And So Am I
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