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"!

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and a minor case of hypergraphia

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