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reports that batches of ecstasy laced with the pesticide levamisole have arrived on Australian shores following a worldwide shortage of MDMA. The claims surfaced in Zurich at an international drug conference recently where it was also asserted cocaine is being cut with the chemical MCPP.
Levamisole is commonly used to treat worm infestations in cattle, pigs and sheep, although Wikipedia states it has also been used to treat human in the past. It has long been a common cutting agent in cocaine and ecstasy, with a 2008-2009 report by the US Drug Enforcement Administration finding 69% of cocaine samples tested positive for the substance. Toxicology reports following the death of DJ AM showed levamisole in his system. MCPP – meta-Chlorophenylpiperazine – has been around since the 1970s, and in the mid 2000s gained popularity as a ‘designer drug’. It is commonly found in pills claimed to be ecstasy.
News.com.au report that these ‘highly dangerous’ batches of cocaine and ecstasy are already on Australian streets. “It is very, very dangerous because people don’t know what’s in the drugs,” said Detective Superintendent Nick Bingham. “We have certainly seen a spike in seizures and arrests of cocaine,” he continued. “It’s the first time we have seen cocaine seizures significantly overtake heroin, although it is still a small population of the overall drug seizures.
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done one summers day, whilst watching my beautiful daughter playing on the jungle gym at the local park.
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rather than let the sexism continue i will explain.....
back about 10years ago my teenage daughters were viewers of 'home and away'.
there was this cool dude who was having a relation with melissa georges character.
he was going a bit odd and told this joke.....it was presented as symptomatic of his diagnosis as a schizophrenic!
have thought about this over the years and i still dont really know what i think.....
bet ya didnt see that coming!lol
t s t .
LMFAO...err no I don't think anyone could have predicted that response Tst...damn you been harboring that thought for 10 or more years, that's some mad ROM engineering you got there man...
I bet that feels really good to finally get it out and talk about it huh...
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Hmmm, I have a feeling this isn't his actual birthday, perhaps I'm thinking of someone else...anyways happy dayz man and may you have many more to come....
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what smells funny...?
Clown poo.
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six hundred watts
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why do women wear makeup and perfume ?
because they are ugly and they smell.
not mine,i'll explain later.....
t s t .
Could be funny if worded a bit more clever, sounds like something a school kid would say, the way it's so direct and pulls no punches. It's a bit like those two line jokes that pop up a lot in certain situations...
eg; why do girls spread their legs when they are eating a pie...?
it keeps the flies away from the pie.
or what does the blind man say every morning when he walks past the fish market...?
"Morning girls"..
I like the blonde jokes a lot ...
eg; how do you know when there's a blonde chick working in an office...?
You see whiteout on the computer screens.
My all time favorite joke is...Man walks into a shoe store on his way to work and purchases a pair of shoes 2 sizes to small for his foot, puts them on and proceeds to walk in agony off to his job. The sales clerk is miffed why someone would do this and curiously notices him on a daily basis walking past the shoe store in excruciating pain to and from his place employment.
One day the sales clerk decides to confront him as he walks past the shoe store on his way home to quiz him why he would continue to wear shoes that are obviously too small and causing him severe discomfort.
"Excuse me sir but I noticed you bought those shoes from here recently, they appear to be 2 sizes too small for you and muct be causing you a lot of pain and discomfort.. "
The man replies.." yes they are indeed too small and certainly do hurt a great deal, but you know what, my wife left me for my best friend, my 21 year old son has informed me that he is gay, and wants to marry a man in his 60's. I recently logged on line and clicked on a link from my e-mail in box that took me too a porno site, whereby I suddenly saw a young woman who looked familiar having sex with 3 men in all sorts of provocative and demeaning positions, when she turned around and faced up towrads the camera I realised why the woman looked familiar...it was my daughter.
that's not all, you see I'm about to lose my home, I'm going bald, my car has been stolen, the new neighbors are young party type people who play hip hop music all night, the washing machine recently broke down, I haven't had sex for 4 years and it looks like my employer is going to cut 20 jobs and mine is one of them...so as you can see life sucks...but you know what, when I get home everyday after working my crumby job, you have no fucking idea how good it feels to take these bloody shoes off.
I actually thought Alice's joke was hilarious, it's gone now but that was pretty darn humorous.
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Speedy recovery man...
any details on the accident...?
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watched the whole 3rd season already and it's kick arse four shore....can't wait for season 4 it's so damn addictive and brilliant.
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LMFAO...how did I miss this little gem before...Botanika you have a knack for noticing the sublimely subtle..(or not so)... nuances of society, particularly the colloquial, you should write or script up, and perhaps publish some of your observations, they are quirky and rather thought provoking to say the least.
Personally i hate the whole hi vis clothing thing, to be honest it made me feel like an inferior person doing an inferior numb nuts job.
it does have one thing going for it though...when you finish work, you don't have to change clothes when going to your favorite Tekno rave party, and you may find your skinny bead wearing girlfriends will be asking to borrow it.
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Burnt
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Ronnies protege...
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I don't see any reason why cannabis legalisation could not be undertaken in a similar way. ie, it is legal to grow your own and share it with friends but not to sell it. Personally I can't see why any would-be growers would be unhappy with that outcome.
The crux of all legalizing arguments is that home growers or home chemists are not under any authority that provides strict guidelines for cultivation/manufacture, therefore lawsuits and serious health risks to the general public are an extreme risk. You can't have people sharing their homemade drugs with anyone, it's incredibly risky and fraught with danger.
This is why we can't make beer at home and sell it to people...we have so many cotton wool laws it's just not going to happen. in many countries around the world people cook and sell their food on the streets to anyone who will buy it, but here and other so called advanced civilizations are germo-phobes, and place laws against this sort of trade, which as we all know is a load of bollocks. Story came out of texas recently where a woman who had been selling her home made Mexican cooking on the roadside for 20 odd years was shut down because where her stand was where she did the cooking, was on dirt...yes she was shut down and told she can't sell food that has been cooked over dirt, even though her family had served food like this for many years without issue.
So you see it's either the Govt's way, or no way.. with anything that is to be for human consumption the laws and guidelines are just bureaucratic bullshit,it's got a lot to do with preventing insurance companies and sueing...govt's have had a hard on for keeping the lawyers and insurance companies from making huge sums now for years...just look what Carr did to the workers compensation claims system...he tore that system a new asshole bigtime.
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I messed up my days off, wasn't off Wednesday but Thursday, but all is good stuff has been sent.
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I honestly believe some people will be more content as life long addicts!
t s t .
Agreed, there is a marked difference between functioning lifetime addicts and your off the rails, losing it all, couch surfing junkie IMO.
If these drugs were not illegal then it would be no different to someone who had eating disorders and food addictions, or the millions of women who indulge in chocolate and sweets behind their partners backs, lets not forget the millions of smokers and drinkers who often know they had too many over the weekend and made dicks of themselves, yet can be found in front of the mirror dolling up the very next Friday night, getting themselves ready for another waltz with too much EtOH.
Then there are these people who are addicted to things like Facebook...IMO that shit is the worst addiction I've ever seen.
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Reefer madness is alive, and flourishing in Australia. The latest Illicit Drug Data Report from the Australian Crime Commission shows two-thirds of all drugs arrests in the financial year of 2008-09 have been for cannabis-related offences. Yes, all around Australia, despite the scare campaigns governments and police run on substances such as heroin, and methamphetamines, it is cannabis, a naturally growing product, which results in the most police attention.
And it gets worse. Figures from the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics show that the number of charges filed by police in that state, for simple drug use, or possession, outweigh charges related to serious drug offences by almost seven to one.
This at a time when the citizens of California — the US state where the original reefer madness took hold – have decided to hold a ballot in November to legalise both the recreational use and sale of marijuana to adults over the age of 21. One would suspect that one of those citizens, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is himself on the side of legalisation. There was, of course, that appearance, lying on a couch, smoking a joint, in the 1970s gym and muscles documentary, Pumping Iron. Schwarzenegger has, however, recently come out on the side of continuing prohibition. We do live in strange and hypocritical times indeed. And, sadly, nowhere is this more on display than in the humble state of NSW. At least the good people of California will get a vote on it.
The NSW Government and local police forces regularly profess a determination to be harsh on drug dealing, and organised crime. A cursory look at the website of NSW Police reveals the tough stance the law enforcement agency has against commercial dealers, manufacturers, importers, and exporters of illicit drugs. According to the National Drug Strategy, the NSW Police Force should:
• disrupt the manufacture and supply of illicit drugs;
• enhance efforts to control the inappropriate supply and diversion of pharmaceutical drugs and pre-cursor chemicals; and
• dismantle organised crime
For these high-minded aims, NSW Police and other state and federal law enforcement agencies are given more than $2 billion annually to conduct their operations, according to a 2008 article in the Drug Alcohol Review by the US economist Timothy Moore.
And how, exactly, is all this money spent? On breaking transnational drug networks? On getting violent drug dealers off the streets? On making sure pseudoephedrine is used only by those with a runny nose, not ice runners? One would think so, but official statistics show otherwise.
The NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics has collated information that demonstrates that between 2000-08, up to 75 per cent of all annual police charges in that state for cannabis-related offences were simply for its use, or possession. Simply put, police in Australia are spending the great majority of a multibillion-dollar "war on drugs" budget on arresting a bunch of stoners with the munchies.
Does not such a seeming waste of resources err with the greater community? Particularly when all scientific and medical evidence suggests cannabis is no more, if less, dangerous than alcohol, and that its active ingredient of THC has clear therapeutic benefits? What's more, a list compiled for The Lancet in 2007 by Britain's most eminent drugs researcher, Professor David Nutt (the former chairman of the UK Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs who in late 2009 resigned after the UK Government increased the level of prohibition on cannabis) shows weed to be the 11th most dangerous substance studied. Nutt's report shows that widely available drugs, such as alcohol, tobacco, and your humble anxiety and sleeping pill (benzodiazepines) outweigh cannabis on the level of danger involved in their continued use.
Already in the US, 14 states, including California, have legalised the medicinal use of marijuana. Patients with a wide range of symptoms and ailments, including cancer, post traumatic stress disorder, and wasting illnesses, are eligible. The continuing illegality of cannabis at all levels in Australia is incredibly puzzling when governments are aware of its medical and therapeutic benefits. The findings of a 2003 NSW Government inquiry, first established by former premier Bob Carr in 2001, suggested the substance at least be legalised for medicinal use, and a trial conducted on its effectiveness. Proponents and politicians in California involved in the legalisation of cannabis for its recreational use, say it will add up to $3 billion to the state's annual economy, which has a $20 billion deficit in funds.
Here, in NSW, there is great potential for a legal cannabis industry, with some of the best conditions in the world to grow the plant. The tiny north coast town of Nimbin is already world famous. Moreover, the state of NSW is struggling with a cash flow problem, and is continually looking to sell off public assets for short-term breathing space on debts and financing. Additionally, information from the National Cannabis Prevention and Information Centre shows that more than 600,000 Australians smoke, or consume, cannabis either daily, or weekly, despite its current illegality; while half of those aged between 18-29 have had a toke at some point in their life. Needless to say, there is an established market and a taste for a plant, which historical and cultural evidence proposes has been with humans for at least the past 4000, or so, years.
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We really need a qualified medic on this board...when is Dr Faustus going to be finished with all that studying, soon I hope, then he can get on with treating our receptor irregularities.
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I am not a fan of forced fluoridation, BUT this sort of article is completely pointless in the discussion and shows a complete lack of understanding on the poster's part.
Just because a substance has detrimental effects in excess quantities doesn't make it a poison in the right quantities. Take iodine for example. It is the closest chemical relative to fluorine. A lack of iodides in the diet has serious consequences and these debilitating conditions have been eliminated by iodisation of table salt in affected areas. However, animals or humans exposed to excess iodides will suffer a whole range of other debilitating toxic conditions. Getting the amount of iodine right is the key.
I believe the same applies to flouride and really the point of dicussion should not be about whether flouride is toxic [cos it obviously is in large enough quantity], but rather what the appropriate level is and whether it is right to force that level on people via their drinking water. That discussion however is not helped by hysterical and pointless arguments like the one made in this thread. It just makes that side of the fence look stupid.
Personally I don't care what they put in 'drinking' water cos you wouldn't catch me ever drinking the crap that comes out of the municipal water supply and a bit of flouride in the shower isn't a bad thing.
I drink tap water all the time, have done since day one, my wife won't and she's from Indo...she boils it and lets it stand in containers around the house at room temp for days until she will drink it.
Interestingly iodine is great item to carry with you when drinking water is questionable/non treated, south east Asia, or Africa anyone, iodine can turn water that might otherwise make you incredibly ill into clean drinking water, you need to know how and at what amounts though. Iodine and chlorine work great against viruses but the will not protect you from cryptosporidia.
How To Purify Water Using Iodine Tincture
Fluoride Toxicity Issues Deaths or poisonings linked to fluoridation or fluoride products
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Legislative Assembly passes roadside drug testing laws
Canberra motorists will be subject to roadside drug tests after the Legislative Assembly passed new laws today.
The Opposition's drug testing bill has passed this morning with the support of the Greens.
Under the new laws Canberra motorists will face random tests for drugs including ecstasy, cannabis and methamphetamine.
Opposition police spokesman Jeremy Hanson says the legislation is long overdue.
"Although this has been a difficult process it didn't need to be and we're here today finally," he said.
Chief Minister Jon Stanhope tried to adjourn the debate.
Mr Stanhope told the Assembly the Human Rights Commissioner is worried about the bill's impact.
"A piece of legislation that interacts with human rights raises human rights concerns," he said.
It could take some time for the laws to come into effect.
Commissioner warns drug tests risk breaching law
The ACT Human Rights Commissioner Helen Watchirs has raised concerns that drug-driving tests risk contravening human rights.
The Greens decided to back the Opposition's drug driving bill and will pass it today, but the Government says it is a flawed law because it did not go through proper consultation.
Ms Watchirs says the bill would fail a legal challenge in the Supreme Court.
ACT Chief Minister Jon Stanhope says this shows the proposal would be bad law.
"We're talking here about taking oral swabs and blood from people who are compulsorily stopped and tested by the roadside," he said.
"The Chief Police Officer's saying, look there's inconvenient little things you've got to deal with in legislation like this called the rules of evidence, and the Human Rights Commissioner is saying we, the jurisdiction, have determined that we will not knowingly breach people's human rights."
The Government sought the ACT Chief Police Officer and the Human Rights Commission's advice after claiming the Opposition failed to consult with either authority before proposing the bill.
But Opposition police spokesman Jeremy Hanson says the bill has undergone rigorous scrutiny.
"Normally in a Westminster system it would be inappropriate for a shadow minister to engage in consultation with a government official," he said.
"It's not the way it's done. Normally I deal with associations and in this case I've dealt with the Australian Federal Police Association."
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There's never really a perfect way to go about this stuff, the only other route to satisfaction is one of two other methods..
*1 - do the trade or sale in person where ever possible, particularly for goods over $300.
*2 - Ask seller for postage quote, only pay the postage at first then the total of goods once received and happy, if dissatisfied with goods take picture as proof of why, and send back at your cost.
There is a third n forth option...
Ask your preferred legitimate ethno vendor to supply you with chosen plants, or use an auction site with pay pal for limited protection.
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as an addict.
geeze, that was enlightening, if I was in your hands at rehab I'd be over the back fence by now hitching a ride back to Dullsville for smoke.
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One thing of interest is that certain addictions are almost necessary to curb behavioral patterns...
for instance; a certain individual has a very short temper and is constantly grumpy and moans about everything..their whole family is like this, it's extremely annoying and prevalent throughout siblings and parents. When this person uses they abstain from any negative behavior that is pretty much natural to the individual when sober. The huge irony is that drug taking can be seen as negative behaviour so go figure.
This person feels as long as they have a drug to keep them occupied then their true colors and short temper doesn't get a look in.
Another way around addiction is to see a psychiatrist that understands you, same sex preferably, similar age too if possible, and talk about your addictions, ask if it's possible to obtain a pharmacologically pure version of your drug to assist in relieving you of a lot of the stress involved in seeking out illegal street drugs. Under close supervision you may find that this may indeed lead you in a slightly different direction permanently and allow you to focus more on subtle idiosyncrasies in your behaviour perhaps allowing you to see them better and iron them out if needed.
Addiction can be a persons friend also, if that friend does nothing but make you feel right, it's incredibly difficult to let them go.
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How would you classify someone who would take years away from addiction on several occasions throughout their life, who lived the clean happy healthy life, yoga meditation, daily exercise and an impeccable diet.. only to return to their drug convictions at random points for no apparent reason, other than simply wanting to get high again because they remembered how it felt and genuinely wanted to get back into it...?
triggers...emotional cues, easily bored or can't find the feelings needed through sobriety.
Once you know how something feels you can't ever forget it.
Remember when....
in Chill Space
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I can relate to everything you wrote botanika...it's a pussy filled, rule driven, cotton wool world now, to be honest I don't see it ever going back to the way it was back then...I think that is to the determent of future generations.
Collecting tadpoles, setting off firecrackers around the local bonfire, billy carts down steep hills, fishing without licenses...heaven forbid we should eat real butter or a roast chook or potroast and collect the dripping...bah, it's all gone, I also have to ask why...?