Don't blow it, just grow it.
Posted on 11/06/2015 11:51:31 AM PST by GodAndCountryFirst
XLR-11, PB-22, AB-FUBINACA, MAB-CHMINACA, 5F-AMB. These are the cryptic and sometimes unpronounceable names of the most dangerous drugs you’ve never heard of. They are responsible for kidney injury, psychosis, seizures, coma and death.
For instance, AB-FUBINACA was responsible for a spate of recent poisonings at Wesleyan University. And MAB-CHMINACA was associated with more than 100 hospitalizations in Baton Rouge. Neither of these drugs were known to the scientific community until late last year.
These drugs are synthetic cannabinoids – several of the hundreds that have been identified as new “designer drugs†in the past five years. More than 150 were reported in 2013 alone, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). And police, doctors, scientists and lawmakers are all struggling to identify these new drugs as they hit the streets.
What are synthetic cannabinoids?
Synthetic cannabinoids are molecules designed to mimic the effects of tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC. Like THC, these synthetic cannabinoids target the cannabinoid type 1 receptor (CB1R) in the brain, which is responsible for the psychoactive effects of THC in cannabis.
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A gramme is better than a damn,”................
Who is making and how these “designer drugs”? It must be pretty easy for the part time chemist. There must be a base element that makes the manufacturing simple.
Right?
This could be one of those problems that takes care of itself. Sooner or later the names will be too long for the 'heads' to remember them...
No. It’s proof prohibition is stupid. A lot of people were blinded, etc. by bad liquor during prohibition too.
As someone that has been watching this develop, the sad thing is that as they ban THC derivatives close to THC, the derivatives get farther and farther in to more dangerous chemical territory.
Don't blow it, just grow it.
Another sign of the downfall of our society.
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Exactly. Nature’s own is far superior and more readily available.
Thank you. That was helpful. But how do you get these compounds (simple one of 4 versions) to put on herbs? I couldn't help but laugh when I saw the safety data. It reads like EVERY SINGLE PHARMA product advertised anywhere.
“But how do you get these compounds”
Precursor chemicals for drugs like meth are manufactured in
China and sent to Mexico. They are generally legal at that point. They are imported by the tons, literal tons, not the metaphorical ton of music or ton of emails. North Korea also has huge plants manufacturing drugs and the drug trade is a major element of their GDP. I’m sure they are made in smaller plants in other countries as there’s too much money involved for organized crime not to be involved.
Also, many college labs probably have students working late at night on more than their dissertations.
Oh, one more item. According to a presentation I saw on the dark net, if somebody introduces you or gives you access you can buy drugs directly off the internet.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=dark+net+explained
This whole article reads more like a DEA press release than anything else.
Another sign of the futility of the war on drugs. People want to get high, it’s one of the basic building blocks of civilization, every civilization has figured out something to drink eat or smoke, you can’t stop it, you can’t even slow it down. It is an unstoppable force.
Legalized pot takes away the reason for these drugs. Same reason bootlegging mostly evaporated when Prohibition was repealed. Back markets can’t compete with white markets on quality, price or convenience. Unless the government screws up the white market with over taxation and regulation.
Just legalize the real thing and stop taxing me for all the activities necessary to protect fools from their folly.
>>>Legalized pot takes away the reason for these drugs. Same reason bootlegging mostly evaporated when Prohibition was repealed. Back markets can’t compete with white markets on quality, price or convenience. Unless the government screws up the white market with over taxation and regulation.<<<
Yes and no. Marijuana was legalized up here in Alaska last year, and everyone I know who smokes weed is now growing it, but there’s also a spice epidemic in Anchorage among the homeless that is hospitalizing many and killing some. Go figure. I would have also thought that legal weed would have eviscerated the spice market here, but instead, it is getting worse - at least in some communities. The Milton Friedman part of me is astonished at this.
Perhaps it is an expression of stability. Those who have a stable home can easily grow it. The law allows growing for personal use up to an certain (and unbelievably large) amount, and you can share seeds, clippings, and weed as long as you do it without charging for it, so maybe our concerns up here is an unintended consequence.
With people, it’s never simple.
And Alaska has a bit of a supply chain problem. It’s easy for demand of anything to out strip supply there.
“Unless the government screws up the white market with over taxation and regulation.”
This is the reason most long time smokers in Colorado still buy from their black market dealers.
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