Comments on: Drug Users Are Mining the Scientific Literature for “Legal Highs”

By: enjoylife

enjoylife — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 08:42:35 +0000

You can dance and get high! You can run and get high! You can walk and get high! You can see the sun and get high! You can eat your favorite food and get high! You can have a lovely talk with your family and get high! You can enjoy nature and get high! Why would you need sth artificial to get high when there are myriad ways to get high, to be happy, to see the world from a different point of you? I close my eyes in the night and I can dream, I do not need drugs! And when I am sad, angry or anxious, I get along with my feelings! Sometimes, I need to express my negative feelings as they are and then at the end of the tunnel when I see light I am going to appreciate and see it with a clear, drug-free mind!

By: Darius2025

Darius2025 — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 05:44:53 +0000

MJ will never be legalized as long as pulp and paper still have some push. Not to mention the billions of dolars pharma corps would lose. Not to mention the fact govn’t makes way more money by selling the ‘illegal’ stuff. Not to mention the fact that MJ has a tendancy to turn ‘sheeple’ into ACTUAL people.

By: RC Dealer/User

RC Dealer/User — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 19:23:17 +0000

That’s the problem with some people. If you are prone to experimenting with street drugs, then you need to do your homework. At least take a few minutes and check erowid before purchasing.
I bet the deaths occurred from people over dosing. Most of dosage of the RCs on the market are based on body weight. Typically around 20mg per dose.

The government should at least realize that people want to get high and will find a way to do so. For years the american public has picketed to get marijuana legal and despite the positives MJ has over alcohol and tobacco, MJ is still illegal.

Vote yes to legalize marijuana and save lives!

By: Katharine

Katharine — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 14:06:22 +0000

Drugs are confusing sometimes.

Not from a physiological standpoint, as I understand pretty well how several work on a basic level (I’m a neuroscience student).

Moreso from a ‘why the f*ck does anyone want to get high’ standpoint. I drink booze for the taste sometimes, but I never get drunk, and I also use caffeine very occasionally to wake up but caffeine isn’t generally hazardous except in very large doses.

I don’t understand why people get so intoxicated that they end up in the hospital or lose touch with reality.

By: Noug

Noug — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 08:14:54 +0000

James, did you not read the article? It clearly says that people have died from these drugs, which have not been tested for safety.

By: James

James — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 03:36:20 +0000

This article didn’t give one reason why it concern anyone, or why it should be stopped.

By: rabidmob

rabidmob — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 02:37:49 +0000

Though it rarely happens I generally agree with Nick on this one.

People will go to great lengths to bend the rules of reality or to bend their perception of it.

By: nick

nick — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 01:13:34 +0000

Just as with alcohol, prohibition doesn’t work. When one drug is placed on the illegal list, it either goes up in value (MDMA) or gets replaced (MTA replacing MDMA).

Either way, society loses, because people do them anyway, and they are dangerously unregulated, plus they enrich druglords and gangs due to high prices. While I wouldn’t advocate full legalization of any drugs (including alcohol and cigarettes), similarly I can’t endorse prohibition.

Alcohol prohibition brought organized crime to prominence in America, and the prohibiting of other substances has given rise to similar home grown and extra-territorial criminal organizations that pour weapons and violence into our society and others.

Of note: there was one legal way to get alcohol during the Prohibition era – a doctor’s prescription. Business boomed.