Posts by debunk
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Dunno about that son Dunne. Suspect this may be a "game-changer" (Hon. Dunne) but maybe not in the way intended....
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WIKIPEDIA on JWH-018 is informative. (Naphthalen-1-yl-pentylindol-3 yDmethanone)..lots of scope for variants as products withdrawn and replaced. What were these politicians thinking! Nutts.
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@Steve Just remember all those happy brain endorphins generated popping down the road. Make sure the "synthetic shit" packet doesn't have toxic JWH-018 in it .. while noting this the Poisons Centre, set up by the Clinical Pharmacology Department at the Otago medical school, writes that
"Consumers should be aware that these products have not undergone any clinical trials or testing to ensure their safety" .
Would stick with borrowed citrusy Pilsner, or like, myself ..must be friends around with spare beer in the wireless dryless north?
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And far more dangerous than THC - the principal active component of cannabis?
Really nothing to do with cannabis the plant that grows so well in clean and green NZ.
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Ministry of Health website on Herbal Highs
"For cases where the documentation is acute intoxication, harmful use etc the diagnosis code to assign is F19 Mental and behavioural disorders due to multiple drug use and use of other psychoactive substances and the free text on the code description should include the wording 'herbal high - synthetic cannabinomimetics."
They note that "many of these substances are actually naphthoylindole (or other) derivatives rather than cannabis derivatives."
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Well that's interesting. And what happened then ..ie what service/feedback/action does the National Poisons Centre offer in response to such enquiries ?
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Do it like the medical "pain" scale commonly used 1 to 10, whereas response to commercial "psychoactives" could be 1=Nausea to 10=Death .. but how to cut off the list ...possibilities are endless. What a "complete game-changer" as Hon Dunne assured Parliament.
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Commercial law would still expect consumers not to be misled and I still suggest that this is the case with this "Legal High" industry.
Adverse response reports are not the "evidence" that the Act seems to require, in terms of the pharmaceutical industry standards. If atypical antidepressants were withdrawn because of adverse effects, enforced users in the psychiatric industry would be a lot better off, but of course this will not happen.
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"Legal Highs" are more likely laboratory variants on P than "synthetic cannabis" unfortunately. Time and tests will tell.
PPPP = Private Profit Public Price ....
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New Zealand innovates, yet again, with a new PPPP business structure....
the Political Public Private Partnership..