From: bliss@mouse-potato.com   
      
   On 1/27/22 19:37, 2.AA6528 wrote:   
   > On 1/27/22 9:56 PM, 1.AAC0832 wrote:   
   >> Great!  Kill more of them.   
   >>   
   >> NEW YORK (AP) — Emerging reports show that two little-known drugs are   
   >> making lethal new contributions to America’s drug overdose crisis.   
   >>   
   >> Para-fluorofentanyl and metonitazene are being seen more often   
   >    I don't even know how the suppliers DEAL with this   
   >    stuff - the lethal dose is barely more than a   
   >    dust-mote - and there ARE even stronger variants,   
   >    something like 50X stronger than fentanyl.   
   >   
   >    Admittedly for smugglers these drugs are a dream.   
   >    Even a extremely tiny capsule, easily concealed   
   >    on the person or luggage, translates into a large   
   >    amount of street dope. If pure enough it's doubtful   
   >    even dogs could detect them.   
   >   
   >    In any case, let's face reality. There is NO WAY to   
   >    control the dope supply. Where there's a market   
   >    people WILL take the risks and reap the profits   
   >    (or occasional deficits). We haven't even seen   
   >    genetic engineering yet - some yeast culture could   
   >    be coaxed into making whatever, sitting in a jar   
   >    in your spare bathroom. No need to smuggle at all.   
   >   
   >    All the anti-dope laws do is feed violent crime   
   >    and human deterioration. The perpetual perception   
   >    of "shortage" always drives users to over-indulge   
   >    and take more risks, that's innate psychology.   
   >   
   >    So, though it does seem bad (and in some respects   
   >    WOULD be) it's just best to drop all war-on-drugs   
   >    bullshit. The lesser of evils.   
      
   	I note fans of RL in the original address line.   
   Indeed the Fentanyl would have been a real threat to the   
   RussMeister.  But the whole drug policing business has   
   produced a real threat to the addicted population which   
   due to the abuse of oral opioid painkillers is larger   
   now than ever before.   
            The Chinese who came to the North American continent   
   brought the use of opium with them and the original laws were   
   directed against the alien use and its extensions into the   
   Euro-American immigrants.   
   The Bayer Corp. in Germany was just trying to make a better   
   cough syrup when they devised Heroin. They wanted another top   
   seller like their market leader Aspirin, but we already had a   
   big opiate drug culture in the USA as Morphine was routinely   
   given to Civil War Veterans for pains that would never leave   
   the survivors so we had plenty of users.   Opium was bulky and   
   hard to smuggle, morphine was more compact so easier to get past   
   customs, Heroin replaced it as the Federal Government looked for   
   packages of morphine.  Heroin began to be sold to the Junkies   
   the Feds had created with the passage of the Harrison Narcotic   
   Act.  Before that your family doctor would shoot up the local   
   judge, lawyers, fellow doctors and anyone else with an addiction   
   or pain problem.  Harrison took that options away from doctors and   
   dictated arrest and treatment for Drug Addicts.   
   Each step from Opium or Opiated spirits to Morphine, to heroin   
   and now to Fentanyl has made the drug more dangerous to the user   
   and someone who is quite young is being prosecuted over the death   
   of a equally young woman to whom he gave a painkiller that was   
   laced with Fentanyl.   
   	So the War on (Some) Drug('s users) is a total waste of   
   time and its publicity has spread the use of drugs to people who   
   otherwise would never have thought of them.   
   	Oh and Heroin did make a very good cough syrup which   
   when it was tested on Bayer's scientists and their families   
   was very effective and those people had no addiction problems.   
      
   	American is and always has been a drug culture, using   
   alcohol, tobacco, coffee.  It sold tobacco and booze to the world   
   and bought coffee because, "THE SPICE Must Flow"!   
      
   bliss - brought to you by the power and ease of PCLinuxOS   
                     and a minor case of hypergraphia   
      
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