LittleSpeer
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At the start of 2010, Cocaine, Meth, Ecstasy, Opium and LSD(including all forms of branch off drugs) have no effect at all.
No More Drugs
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I suppose this would be future history or space bat, but I'm not police here, so I don't care.
This sounds like a good thing. No more drugs, no more dealers, and the gangbangers have lost a source of ill-gotten revenue. Now if you just add dope to it, then the cartels will quit growing it in our national forests.
This sounds like a good thing. No more drugs, no more dealers, and the gangbangers have lost a source of ill-gotten revenue. Now if you just add dope to it, then the cartels will quit growing it in our national forests.
It would mean no job for me (I'm a Criminal Justice-Law Enforcement major).
You mean you just have a fancy piece of paper (that being your degree) and not an actual job? It might surprise you to know that cops have had plenty to do before illegial drugs sprang up on the scene. Watch a Western some time, and you'll see. Plenty of work for the sheriff.
i know. i graduate spring of 2011. i was being humorous(for lack of a better word) is all.
Dom
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Don't worry, The Kiat is just a bitter person, so ignore his moaning
This should go in the ASB section though, for future reference, if something could not happen without a major change in the way the world works (Such as drugs stopping working) it is ASB.
Thank God I still have alcohol, tobacco, barbiturates, PCP, glue, and cough syrup.
(And yes, this should be in ASB.)
nbcman
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Is the OP implying that only illegally obtained drugs will have no effect or will it impact all drugs.
If you are including all 'branch off drugs' to all drugs that you have listed, it will make severe pain management very difficult or impossible (no cocaine, opiods or their derivatives/synthetic derivatives). That means no hydrocodone/oxycodone which is used in the majority of prescription pain medications.
The loss of Meth could impact weight loss medications as well as allergy medications.
Ecstasy and LSD would be no loss.
If you are including all 'branch off drugs' to all drugs that you have listed, it will make severe pain management very difficult or impossible (no cocaine, opiods or their derivatives/synthetic derivatives). That means no hydrocodone/oxycodone which is used in the majority of prescription pain medications.
The loss of Meth could impact weight loss medications as well as allergy medications.
Ecstasy and LSD would be no loss.
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Hendryk
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I'll be the third to say that ASB scenarios, of which this is very obviously one, don't belong in the regular forums.
And I'll mention a problem that this well-meaning but thoughtless ASB seems to have overlooked. If opiates no longer have an effect, what will medical personnel use as painkillers?
Hendryk
Banned
Well, it looks like I myself was beaten to it by nbcman.That's the question I was going to ask. You beat me to it, Hendryk!
I'm rather curious about the choice of premise, though. Note that two of the most deadly and addictive drugs known to man, alcohol and tobacco, aren't mentioned. I suppose that in the ASB's mind being legal makes them okay. Good thing that ASB didn't show up during Prohibition.
LSD might be no loss, but Ecstasy has been proven useful in treating the motor problems associated with Parkinson's disease.
Parkinson's and MDMA
On the other hand, some studies also try to draw a link between taking MDMA and getting Parkinson's:
MDMA and Parkinson's
It just _might_ cut both ways. Just so that you know.
...and knowing is half the battle!
LittleSpeer
Monthly Donor
yayaya sorry been sick for a few days and was not thinking stright. Sorry but i cant move it. I will remember next time. I blame the Cocanie.
^Interesting bit about the MDMA. One facet of "ecstasy" is that if you buy "ecstasy" from a drug dealer, you're not getting MDMA, you're getting "pills that fuck you up (which were probably made in some dude's basement lab and are 60% speed)." Actually getting real MDMA is an arduous process, I've heard. I dunno, I don't do drugs [except for pot, alcohol, and (very occasionally) mushrooms].
Thank god apparently AH.commers don't think cannabis is a drug. (I have several stoner friends who insist it's an "herbal supplement." I say it's a drug, but that doesn't mean there's anything wrong with smoking a lot of it... haha) If lots of other drugs stop working, it might lead to heavier use of the ones that do still work; the ones that DJC listed, along with several others (prescriptions, anyone?).
Anyway, meth being gone will solve a huge public health issue... No cocaine means all the hipsters will be bored, plus that's gonna do a number on the thriving drug trade -- what are all these suddenly-broke (yet still heavily armed) criminals going to do? For awhile they're going to keep selling bunk drugs they know don't work or making up new drugs to keep making money off of people who don't know about it yet. The economies of certain drug-producing nations are going to be negatively effected, especially Afghanistan (they make something like 80% of the world's heroin, don't they?) and the various famous South American coke producers. I don't know to what extent the economies of these countries are reliant on drug production, but I've heard that it's a pretty good way for poor farmers to turn some profit; instead of growing, say, potatoes, grow coke instead! Because a kilo of coke is worth a hell of a lot more than a kilo of potatoes.
LSD being gone is a bit of a shame, but honestly I think that's been a pretty zero-sum drug in terms of societal effects; for every person it inspires to make some awesome art (debatably the upside of acid) it makes two into complete burnouts.
A lot of addicts are going to be really pissed off, especially heroin and meth addicts -- that stuff, and, by extension, the people who do them, frightens me.
Thank god apparently AH.commers don't think cannabis is a drug. (I have several stoner friends who insist it's an "herbal supplement." I say it's a drug, but that doesn't mean there's anything wrong with smoking a lot of it... haha) If lots of other drugs stop working, it might lead to heavier use of the ones that do still work; the ones that DJC listed, along with several others (prescriptions, anyone?).
Anyway, meth being gone will solve a huge public health issue... No cocaine means all the hipsters will be bored, plus that's gonna do a number on the thriving drug trade -- what are all these suddenly-broke (yet still heavily armed) criminals going to do? For awhile they're going to keep selling bunk drugs they know don't work or making up new drugs to keep making money off of people who don't know about it yet. The economies of certain drug-producing nations are going to be negatively effected, especially Afghanistan (they make something like 80% of the world's heroin, don't they?) and the various famous South American coke producers. I don't know to what extent the economies of these countries are reliant on drug production, but I've heard that it's a pretty good way for poor farmers to turn some profit; instead of growing, say, potatoes, grow coke instead! Because a kilo of coke is worth a hell of a lot more than a kilo of potatoes.
LSD being gone is a bit of a shame, but honestly I think that's been a pretty zero-sum drug in terms of societal effects; for every person it inspires to make some awesome art (debatably the upside of acid) it makes two into complete burnouts.
A lot of addicts are going to be really pissed off, especially heroin and meth addicts -- that stuff, and, by extension, the people who do them, frightens me.