Posts by Neil
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Hard News: Our own fake news, in reply to Kumara Republic,
Wisconsin’s Voter-ID Law Suppressed 200,000 Votes in 2016 (Trump Won by 22,748)
It makes you wonder why quite a few US pundits - who claim to have really really wanted Trump not to win - spent so much time and energy condemning the Dem campaign and Clinton for being out of touch, emails etc.
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A dark view of things would be that we've moved from a situation of relative clarity - most illegal drugs aren't that harmful and should be at least decriminalised - to a new world of chemical expertise run by the unscrupulous churning out harm faster than we can organise against.
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Hard News: Synthetics: Maybe this mess…, in reply to Katharine Moody,
If the case, then I just don’t know that regulated distribution is the answer – it seems to me to be almost like introducing highly addictive tobacco products in this day and age.
There's two issues. One is price point. Synthetics are cheaper than weed which is why a lot of people living rough are using them. Making weed cheaper would displace some of that.
But as with solvent users there are people who will just prefer the type of hit they get over that of other drugs no matter the risk.
And most likely any new chemical compound will develop a market.
It's going to be difficult but I think having available the safer alternatives - including opiates and psychedelics - will help keep that market small.
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I'm not quite sure why the police are being seen as unhelpful. They and the coroner made a public statement to alert people to the danger and clearly stated that some canabinods are extremely dangerous and can be mixed with other chemicals.
The emergency treatment of someone with a toxic delirium will initially be symptomatic - dealing with seizures, dehydration, chest pain, nausea, aggression etc. If blood tests show canabiboids then not much changes. (I might be wrong there). And not much changes according to the particular canabinoid - the severity of the toxic delirium is the determining factor. (Again I could be wrong on that).
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It’s important for emergency medical staff to know these things, and unhelpful for them to have to deal with noise about fly spray and weedkiller.
I spoke with a number of people a month or more before this hit the headlines and they told me the recipe being used containing fly spray.
It was in the context of two people becoming very ill with one of them being hospitalised.
As yet we don't know the exact cause of these deaths. But locally, products are being used that are cheap and readily available.
That might not be the full story but it is happening.
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It’s very tough on a benefit and I have a great deal of sympathy and respect for those who don’t have much education, have chaotic lives and don’t have the out of a legal professional future but still maintain honest relations with people.
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Hard News: This is bad – very bad, in reply to andin,
I'm not suggesting it's an informed choice, there's people out their creating stuff that draws people in.
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It’s more likely to be something like fly spray than fentanyl.
But what ever it is it is as you say a different hit to weed and some prefer it.
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It's not just arsehole contrarianism that motivates people like Greenwald, it's also financial interest - there's a depressingly large market for the blame anyone but Trump line.
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Paul Behrends, a top aide to [Republican] Representative Dana Rohrabacher, has been ousted from his role as staff director for the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee that Rohrabacher chairs, after stories appeared in the press highlighting his relationships with pro-Russia lobbyists.
Rohrabacher voted against Obamacare, denies global warming, and oh yes is a friend of Putin and supported Putin's invasion of Crimea.
Chairs a House Foreign Affairs committee.