73 Replies to “Let Me Fix That Headline For You”

  2. phil >
    Witty, it’s a good thing North of 60 can come up with material for you to use. Otherwise you’d be where?

  3. Kids are kids. There will always be ones that make a dumb, impulsive mistakes. I heart sick for the ones that we lose, or have their lives destroyed, and sympathy for their families. I do not have a solution. I do not believe that there is one, really. All I know is that I want to hunt down the manufacturers and pushers of these poisons and crush their windpipes. With my bare hands.

  4. “If Darwin were cleaning the shallow end of the gene pool, SDA would have almost no traffic at all. It’s a toss up whether knight 99, phantom or kate would be the first to go.”
    Posted by: phil at February 6, 2012 7:27 PM
    Dammit, Phil, what am I, chopped liver? I have feelings, you know. Who raised you?

  5. phil is a good example of what happens when someone has had too many drugs or too many kicks in the head. Witch is it phil?

  6. Black Mamba >
    I know, it’s getting rewarding comments like “phil’s” that make posting at SDA the warmest and fuzziest feeling you could possibly get outside of punching Pierre Trudeau in the head, or watching Iggy’s failure to launch and shameful banishment from our lands.
    It’s moments like these that you know you’ve made a painful and gut wrenching impact.
    🙂

  7. I pine for the days….what was it? 4 or 5 months ago when North of 60 had yet to stumble on this blog, when phil was an irrelevant puke..oh wait!
    Take me back…

  8. “You can’t rate a person’s IQ by what he ingests with a group of his peers.” Not sure about that, but all the same I think *maturity* is really what it is all about.
    Kids today are just plain immature for their age. Gone are the days when 21 years old meant you were a grownup. Indeed some kids never grow up from what I see.
    So with my kids one of the things I teach them constantly is how to be mature and behave like a grown up, and I teach them that its something to be proud of. There are lots of effective ways to go about this, one of the best being to teach kids to enjoy the company of (mature) adults, and to teach them how to communicate with adults.

  9. Yeah for death! Go death!
    Could drug warriors end their BS about wanting to protect drug users from drug damage? They clearly hate drug users and cheer for their deaths. They just see the drug war as an expensive way for the government to indulge their sentiments.

  10. The last people in the world who should be talking to kids about drugs are cops. Cops know next to nothing about pharmacology aside from their use of alcohol. Some of the hardest patients I’ve had to deal with are cops who refuse to take any drugs for pain because they “don’t want to become junkies”. As if the 26’er of rye they are consuming nightly to treat their pain is somehow morally better.
    The NP article was sensationalist and what I’d expect of a newspaper decrying children dying from guns. Yes, some tough action is needed and that’s to shoot anyone who misrepresents the contents of a drug they’re selling. I believe Hunter S. Thompson ran on this platform when he was running for sheriff of Aspen.
    Paramethoxyamphetamine (PMA) has a very narrow therapeutic index and it should clearly be labeled as such. MDMA has a higher therapeutic index although MDA is even safer but for some obscure reason not widely available any more. Given the inter-individual variability in drug metabolism only an idiot would take an unknown dose of PMA.
    Methamphetamine is not “highly addictive” and is just another member of the amphetamine family still available on prescription in the US for treatment of narcolepsy and ADHD. It made its debut in the 1930’s and was a favorite of the Wehrmacht and Japanese factories during WWII. After the war was over, the Japanese methamphetamine stockpiles were sold to the population and that was probably the first recorded wave of methamphetamine abuse. Every 10 years or so methamphetamine makes a comeback somewhere and the pharmacologically ignorant label it as something else. I’ve heard doctors rant about the deleterious effects of “crystal meth” not having a clue that “crystal meth” is almost identical to what they’re prescribing to hyperactive kids. Dose/day is the critical factor here and demonizing methamphetamine is equivalent to comparing the guy who has a couple of beer during a hockey game with a skid road drunk who has seizures whenever his blood alcohol level drops below a value that would be fatal to the majority of the population.
    After seeing the totalitarian mindset of the Canadian Gestapo when it comes to individual ownership of firearms and self defense, what makes people think that these individuals are any more truthful when it comes to psychedelic drugs? As far as tracking down and prosecuting criminals who sell mislabelled, impure or garbage drugs, this is what the police should be doing. Drug users should be able to get what they expect they’re paying for. Keeping the results of drug analysis of seized drugs from the public is idiotic. There should be anonymous centers where people can send drug samples and, for a fee, have the composition of the drug determined. That would probably turn a lot of people off E if they found out they were getting a cheap knockoff instead of MDMA.
    It’s time to push back against the statists who want to control every aspect of our lives. That means we need to go for concealed carry and enactment of the castle doctrine in Canada as well as decriminalizing most drugs but increasing penalties for misrepresenting what one is selling. For example, passing off PCP as E should be a hanging offense. PCP has it’s uses as an animal anesthetic but I consider it a garbage drug although have known people that find its use enjoyable – another example of human pharmacologic variability.
    To put things in perspective, I’m curious how many deaths from AIDS have been caused by the totally legal Vancouver “bathhouses” where HIV+ homosexual men have unprotected sex with other men? I’m willing to bet that the health department doesn’t keep records on this sort of thing. Any society that is persecuting recreational drug users “to prevent deaths” should also be shutting down hotspots of HIV infection, but the homosexual lobby is just too strong and likely well represented among lawyers and the judiciary.

  11. Yeah, that’ll teach those immature kids! No growing old for you!
    You seem to love statism if it has a uniform on and a gun its hand.
    The state overstepped its bounds when it criminalized these drugs. Like anywhere the state steps in, it infantilizes the population. The parents who can feel they’re safer, the kid who thinks its dangerous and thus cool, the gangsta boyz, the idiotic blog posts, etc. As always, state action introduces other unintended consequences — a massive underground economy with industry players of incredible power that they would never have without these gov’t-created monopolies, no controls or regulations on quality such as we have around food, etc, etc.
    It’s not the NDP/Liberals who should be advocates of decriminalization. It’s Conservatives who want to reduce government bureaucracies of all kinds, even the cops.

  13. we need to go for concealed carry and enactment of the castle doctrine in Canada as well as decriminalizing most drugs but increasing penalties for misrepresenting what one is selling
    Excellent summary of the situation. The only people profiting from illegal drugs are crime lords and politicians, and far too often the difference is indistinguishable. Many politicians find it quite easy to take the ‘moral high road’ to maintain the status quo on drugs while turning a blind eye to the source of their campaign funds.

  14. many of the kids who are doing drugs are very intelligent young people. Some very bright people have weaknesses,booze,women, small boys,and some can’t resist drugs. You can’t rate a person’s IQ by what he ingests with a group of his peers.
    Intelligence is a lot more than “IQ”. People who use street drugs of questionable quality are not ‘intelligent’ by definition. A lot of smart recreational/occasional drug users only smoke pot or hash because they can tell from looks and taste if it’s clean. They don’t o.d., they don’t engage in hazardous behavior, and they have no interest in using anything else. They’ll be alive and healthy long after the pill-poppers and meth-heads are dead.
    Dealing with temptation and peer pressure is all part of becoming a mature responsible adult. Some people never make that transition. That’s why the Darwin Awards exist.

  16. IQ is not the only quality that promotes selection into the next generation. It helps, it is a positive, for sure, but other factors apply, and if you can reason yourself into a steel trap conclusion that taking drugs of unknown provenance for an unproven benefit is the right thing to do, well, maybe you are too smart to live.

  17. It’s not the NDP/Liberals who should be advocates of decriminalization. Conservatives who want to reduce government bureaucracies of all kinds, even the cops.
    One would think that, but the “conservatives” around here love, as you said, nanny statism with a gun and a uniform. They love big gov’t high taxes if it benefits themselves or their friends. They only hate big government if they perceive it to benefit groups and programs they don’t like. It’s not like the small dead mind has a consistent, principled philosophy. Hypocrisy is it’s lifeblood. Twisted, shallow bitterness it’s stock in trade, even if it cuts off it’s nose to spite it’s face. It can only be mocked.

  18. phil >
    “They only hate big government if they perceive it to benefit groups and programs they don’t like.”
    Gawd, do you really manage to get up in the mornings?

  19. Gawd, do you really manage to get up in the mornings?
    Wow, ain’t that brilliant. The small dead mind appeals to neither reason nor logic. It is only to be mocked.

  20. phil >
    “The small dead mind appeals to neither reason nor logic.”
    Indeed it does, you need to show some to get some.
    Your bitter little projections do not convince anyone. You have self described the left perfectly and attempted to sell it off by spinning the outrageous hypocrisies of the left as a conservative vice. in typical ‘lefty” fashion.
    You people are loony mentally ill persons forcing your lunacy on the rest of society. One day it will come to an end, for better or worse.
    “Hypocrisy is it’s lifeblood. Twisted, shallow bitterness it’s stock in trade, even if it cuts off it’s nose to spite it’s face. It can only be mocked.” – phil
    Brilliant indeed, now go look in a mirror and repeat over and over to yourself.

  21. C’mon, you yahoos are always prattling on about freedom yet your mistress gets her panties wet over drug war collateral damage from bathtub gin. If that isn’t bitter, twisted hypocrisy I don’t know what is.

  22. (phil writes, “Hypocrisy is it’s [the small dead mind’s] lifeblood. Twisted, shallow bitterness it’s stock in trade, even if it cuts off it’s nose to spite it’s face. It can only be mocked.”
    Actually, phil, “it’s” is the contraction for “it is”. The possessive is “its”: no apostrophe. Strange, but true.
    I’d have thought that someone as smart as you, someone with such a large, engaged brain, would know that.)

  23. I’d have thought that someone as smart as you, someone with such a large, engaged brain, would know that.)
    Will wonders never cease… One can actually learn something here if one waits long enough.

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