Hard News: TV list show in "doesn't suck" shock!
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How about that hoary old chestnut known as bananadine, or 'B' for short? The Brass Eye crew are probably holed up at Gitmo Bay if they don't get wind of it.
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PS. I'm going mellow yellow...
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In American supermarkets, you can buy isopropyl in one litre bottles. I'm fairly sure you can also get pseudo-ephedrine based cold tablets in American-sized packets, or at least you could until fairly recently. You can also get 5-HTP in the equivalent of Woolworths, which points to a thriving drug culture, I feel.
After visiting a Big Hospital in San Francisco 3 years ago I had to go across the road to the chemist to fill my prescription. I was dumbfounded to see that they were selling over-the-counter pseudo-ephedrine based cold tablets in cartons the size of large Weetbix boxes. I knew Americans like buying stuff in bulk (Costco sell giant chocolate muffins in trays of 36!) but this was ridiculous.
And yet still I picked up this monstrous box of cold tablets and turned it over slowly in my hands ... wondering, thinking: "I could make a dollar or two if I managed to get this back to Auckland"
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Who knows? Although I suspect a point is a malleable measure.
Especially given the sorts of scales P-dealers use.
Really, is it too much to ask that they get something accurate to 0.01g if they're selling in 0.1gs?
These sorts of things should be regulated to stop their customers getting ripped off.
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...and it's tolerated but you cant be poor and living in sth aux.
I'm poor and I live in Mt Eden. Does that count?
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The great thing about banning all these drugs is the ridiculous abundance of 'gold top' mushrooms freely available in and around parliament between march and may of every year. Look out for trench coat wearing BA students out side the reserve bank at 7am on a Monday morning. They're not searching the shrubberies for inflation figures.
They grow in incredible numbers on the hills just behind my house. How sad is it that I haven't found time to head up there once this autumn?
After visiting a Big Hospital in San Francisco 3 years ago I had to go across the road to the chemist to fill my prescription. I was dumbfounded to see that they were selling over-the-counter pseudo-ephedrine based cold tablets in cartons the size of large Weetbix boxes.
A couple of months ago I found myself in a pharmacy in India where they were selling massive boxes of diazepam over the counter.
Unfortunately I had problems of my own at the time and didn't pick up a box or two. -
...and it's tolerated but you cant be poor and living in sth aux.
I'm poor and I live in Mt Eden. Does that count?
Mt Eden jail ???
...do what you like cos no one gives a shit about you behind bars
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"People have been swallowing, snorting and injecting various amhetamines for generations now. Life goes on. But methamphetamine, smoked, is just a bit too nice for some people.'
That sounds like you're trying to educate people about drugs Russell. Society doesn't need education, every knows we're to stupid for education, we just need to be scared endlessly about diary owners selling legal goods .Thanks lisa owen, I knew we weren't to blame.
but seriously If ya can't sleep enough and sleep regularly , whether it be (a) lcohol or p you have a drug problem. We need measurement and guidelines. We need dialogue from the obvious silent majority (do the math) who obviously get by on this stuff. Personally at 40 I like the daily trip into sleepland and it's wild regenerating power to want to screw with it but that's just me.
Education is the only way to start confronting any issue. Education and research are keys to all our closed doors yet we just keep endlessly butting our head against the drug door (of perception).
Drugs are amazing , we’re living to 80 or 90 and drugs can take a bow as a key ingredient in keeping us well from traditional illnesses that use to bowl us over. Look at the health benefits that legal drugs have provided us .
What we do understand about drugs is this. P is to speed what moonshine is to beer, a heavy overdose of a drug that has functioned socially and mentally at much lower diluted levels.
What goes up must come down. Watch that coffee and make sure you sleep.
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Jeremy Eade: "What goes up must come down. Watch that coffee and make sure you sleep."
Well said that man. Maybe it was my education in physiology coupled with being a distance runner but drugs never really appealed. There are too many people who think there is such a thing as a free lunch with such things. It is a no brainer. If you use Ecstasy which uses up large amounts of your serotonin then there will be a big comedown while your poor brain frantically makes some more.
If you take speed or coke to keep going then inevitably you will have to make up for BOTH the lack of sleep and energy you used.
I'm not saying don't do it, just be aware that everything has a cost and the piper has to be paid. It seems easy when you are young, but you won't be young forever.
As for caffeine I can drink 6 cups a day including one before bedtime and fall asleep just fine. But that group is because I am an addict and have become habituated. I don't sleep quite as well though and I am lucky. My wife can't drink it after about 2pm and expect to get to sleep at 11. So I am a caffeine freak and she is not.
However when I'm running a lot my tastes change and I move more towards tea (black, Russian, with lemon). Go figure.
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3410,
Rock the Nation: 100 New Zealand Music Moments
For those who missed it, episode one repeated: C4, this Sat., 17th May, 8:30.
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Thanks for that, 3410.
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