Drugs are bad, mkay?

[1sabeau]

So, I was reading on CBC that the government is worried because since 2004 criminal groups have been expanding MDMA [ecstasy] distribution and have significantly elevated MDMA availability.

Let's learn more about ecstasy (thank you Wikipedia, our real life equivalent of a DnD magical book that has answers about everything, just one spell away (pun

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[ancalagon_tb]

while I do agree that the war on drug is overblown and ridiculous, the risks of ecstasy shouldn't be ignored - like damage to the same dopanergic neurons that degenerate during Parkinson.

Stick to pot. It's safer than booze!

[daywalker6669]

Yeah, keep taking that shit at your own risk - it causes permanent brain damage, and a brain that no longer has serotonin receptors (which it targets) is a pretty bad side effect from a drug that would indeed be horrible.

Not to mention that when you come down from that shit, your brain is so devoid of serotonin that you can literally give yourself depression - mental illnesses have physical causes, and this drug creates the conditions that cause it.

That's in addition to the headaches, chills, eye twitching, jaw clenching, blurred vision and nausea. dehydration, hyperthermia and seizures.... and the fact that is it usually made with a chemical variant of meth - before being cut with it.

He's sooooooooo right about sticking to weed.

[1sabeau]

I think this is a long discussion, not necessarily appropriate for this post that was merely poking fun at the government, given that I am not for making drugs illegal, but rather controlling quality and investing money in education instead

[daywalker6669]

Before I go on to places you might actually have a point....

MDMA stands for methylenedioxymethamphetamine

The last few letters of that are methamphetamine, if you care to look. That is meth.

So it is meth is in E whether it is cut with it or not, and you are at the least just as misinformed as you claim I am.

[daywalker6669]

Oh, and MY D&D books with answers are the medical magazines and books the nurse I live with has and the books on drugs I read studying psychology, so the magic within them is more powerful than wikipedia any day.

What I don't understand is why? Why do you want to take a failed attempt from 1914 to create a diet pill anyway? :)

[1sabeau]

Don't worry about me, my dad is a psychiatrist and wrote a toxicology guide for the Quebec government some years back, I have proper information ;)

And, I never said I am taking e (I wouldn't discuss that on LJ anyway), I'm merely saying that for a society, there are worst things.

[daywalker6669]

K, let me rephrase that -

Why would anyone want to take a failed attempt at a diet pill that's almost 100 years old marketed as a "new drug" and then falsely called "safe" and "side effect free" when the reason the diet pill's use ceased was because it causes clinical depression?

[1sabeau]

Oh, and it wasn't created to be a diet pill, it was initially developed to be used as a chemical for a drug meant to control bleeding out in world war I. (A bit earlier than 1914 if memory serves right)

[ancalagon_tb]

reads the edit

Yeah, sorry about that... it was funny.

I personally think that there is no reason why the war on drugs should work any better than the prohibition did.