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On 02/27/2012 04:34 AM, Tom Nowell wrote:
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<div>Spike asked how come stoners take colossal risks putting
god knows what junk into themselves and get a free pass. Well,
the simple answer is they're not actually taking that big a
risk. They have the mighty power of mammalian evolution on
their side, and the human body is amazing at detoxifying all
sorts of crap. You can fill yourself with rubbish, wash down
your pharmaceuticals with a dose of ethanol that would butcher
some other mammals, get the munchies and eat some junk food
which is more additives than farm produce and still only have
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<div>I remember hearing a statistic about how many millions of
pills of what customers believe is MDMA are taken each week in
the UK, but I thought the figure I remembered was too high. <a
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12pt;">http://mdma.net/club-drugs/uk.html</a> reproduced an
Observer article from 2003 stating the UN reckoned 730k people
took MDMA in the UK, and the National Criminal Intelligence
Service said from 500k to 2m pills of "MDMA" (well, something
that produces a similar high mixed with random cutting agents,
but lets pretend it's actually the drug people thought they
were paying for) were consumed each week.</div>
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End the War on [some] Drugs. Sue producers of defective tabs for
fraud. Simple.<br>
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<div>If that's true, then in 2003 from 25m to 100m badly
produced, minimally quality controlled tablets were taken in
the UK for the purposes of getting high, and only 72 people
died in "ecstasy related deaths", some of which were down to
accidents they could have had on other intoxicating
substances, some due to allergy, some due to people
overdrinking water because they thought they needed that much
while taking the drug. <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://thedea.org/statistics.html" style="font-size:
12pt;">http://thedea.org/statistics.html</a> says that in a
UK study of 81 deaths where MDMA was present, only 6 died of
MDMA toxicity. So, maybe 100 million tablets for single
figures of actual deaths from poisoning. It says a lot about
the resilience of the human body that large-scale consumption
of illegal synthetic drugs still kills less people than
old-fashioned heroin or cocaine. (It also says a lot about the
UK that so many people escape the tedium of their lives
through getting completely off their faces, nothing has
changed since the gin-swilling drunks depicted by Hogarth in
the 18th century)</div>
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Compare that to the numbers that died from alcohol. Or from
tobacco. <br>
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- samantha<br>
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