XPost: uk.politics.drugs, uk.legal   
   From: bliss@sfo.com   
      
   Blah wrote:   
   > Aidy wrote:   
   >> "Cynic"  wrote in message   
   >> news:8kn355tpmarcsji7bb6s4ocv3fnjvjs408@4ax.com...   
   >>   
   >>> Probably water if injectable, otherwise glucose.   
   >>   
   >> So why are the ingredients that "illegal" heroin are cut with so   
   >> dangerous? Isn't the argument that heroin (although very easy to   
   >> overdose on and controlled as it is quite a dangerous substance) is   
   >> only dangerous because it has been cut with harmful things?  Why isn't   
   >> street heroin just cut the way "legal" heroin would be?   
   >>   
   > Because 'ingredients' are expensive. A squat however might have a   
   > cupboard full of 'free' shite like boot polish, rat poison, or whatever   
   > that can be mixed together to pad out the original.   
      
   	In any event the heroin is likely to be cut with chalk dust   
   or any white powder.  The method of mixing is likely not to be sterile   
   even if the heroin started out that way, so you could if an IV user   
   pickup whatever was on the utensils or hands of the cutters.  Good   
   way to get blood infections.   
   	I have seen people with tracks on their arms like rattle snakes from   
   infections.   
      
   	When Alcohol Prohibition was the law in the USA alcohol was   
   cut with methyl or isopropyl alcohols, spiked with ether and other   
   good substances so it is the illegality that causes these disgusting   
   dilutions with poisons of drugs that are less dangerous.   
      
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