Posted on 04/03/2006 7:45:26 PM PDT by aculeus
Uh, no.
Guy makes Syd Barret look like an occasional user.
Which is of course, total bogosity. Same snake oil sold for LSD, mushrooms, peyote etc... ad nauseum. Nothing new under the sun.
I don't think it's a good idea to generalize from one drug to the next, or from one person to the next. Some drugs in some people have effects which are terrifying and permanent, while other drug in other people can wear off with time.
40,000 hits of ecstacy???
Far OUUUTTTT,Man!
I have heard this reported as a transient symptom, while under the influence of MDMA or shortly thereafter, in subjects who have used it recreationally. I have heard it said that MDMA is sometiems cut with strychnine (just why I would wonder) or somehow deteriorates into strychnine. Perhaps MDMA itself causes neck and jaw muscle rigidity.
Anyone who takes a drug prepared or sold illegally is very foolish. It could be anything, and the people who prepare it are not accountable and are probably irresponsible.
that's why I said a guy"like this"...refering to America and similar drug abuse cases.
But ... why?
What a lonnnnggggg strange trip it's been.
Yeah, alcoholics just get the DT's and liver disease.
I'm so shocked and so worried about the effects this guy is going through -- hallucinations and paranoia and other effest that may be permanent -- that at first I didn't correctly catch the point you were making.
I'm so shocked and so worried about the effects this guy is going through -- hallucinations and paranoia and other effest that may be permanent -- that at first I didn't correctly catch the point you were making.
Not complete bogosity. For decades, MDMA was used as an aid in marriage counseling. Under controlled conditions, I can see how it would be extremely useful.
The guy in the article was obviously self-destructive in any case. If he'd taken the same amount of Tylenol as it is claimed he did MDMA, he'd be in similarly bad shape, likely dead due to kidney failure.
Uh, yes.
If the active alcoholic continues down a road that this guy did, the results are the same.
Take a trip through a state mental hospital or on skid row.
However, not all alcoholics who continue to drink will end up like this, just as not all who use ecstasy end up like this.
Yeah. It should be.
Good catch...
"Active alcoholics end up the same way"
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"Uh, no."
Not these particular symptoms. But alcohol is the second leading cause of preventable death in the U.S. with about 100,000 deaths a year.
Nope, legalizing drugs means there are restrictions on purchasing, limiting availability to minors, and heavy taxation.
those that want the drugs will get them one way or another.
Reduce crime and create millions of tax dollars to finally
offer real research into addictions and treatment methods and offer rehab to those who want it.
Jaw clenching and grinding teeth were the reason behind so many "club kids" sporting pacifiers at rave parties, or at least it was back in the day when I was going to such places. I'd think nine years straight of this would very likely lead to painful rigidity around the neck and jaw.
He'd be a contender for a Senate seat....
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