Posts by BenWilson
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Hard News: People Take Drugs, in reply to bmk,
Depends how much air you take in, but yes, I take your point that you could quite possibly mainline 10 grams in go, which would probably take many hours to smoke. Your anecdote that the injectors fucked themselves up is probably most of the reason that it's not a popular method. Smokers seems to have no problem getting sky high and become total addicts, without the risk of accidentally stuffing up the dose.
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Hard News: People Take Drugs, in reply to bmk,
They can't have been smoking that furiously, it vaporizes very quickly. But yes, I suppose when you're taking enormous amounts, injecting is quicker. But we're talking really, really huge volumes. A gram of P could be vaporized in a few minutes. That's a pretty large dose. Hardened users would expect it to last a weekend. It's usually sold in "points", which are 0.1 of a gram, your standard session.
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Hard News: People Take Drugs, in reply to Russell Brown,
I know of one case in America -- a friend of a friend -- where precisely that happened. Guy took a leak down an alley by a bar in a California town, got sprung, wound up on a 10-year sex offender register. Completely and utterly insane.
Whereas a lawyer friend of mine here in NZ managed to acquit a client from all charges for public urination. The judge threw the case out as a complete waste of court time. I think he took exception to the hyperbole in the police report which described a "raging torrent" of piss, and figured that they were just vexatiously charging someone they didn't like whom they couldn't bust for anything real.
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Hard News: People Take Drugs, in reply to bmk,
If smoking is worse than snorting then injecting is far worse than smoking.
Not so sure about that. Smoking (well, technically vapourizing in the case of P) is a virtually immediate hit, and you can have any quantity you like. So there's really no difference, other than needle tracks in the arm. I expect smoking is safer, less chance of infection, or killing yourself accidentally with bubbles or bad drugs.
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Hard News: People Take Drugs, in reply to Bart Janssen,
They put a proposal to the city council, it was put out to public ballot and the majority imposed their tyrannical will on the minority.
The majority of people who bothered to respond, that is?
But sure, that sounds like due process. It doesn't make me agree with the people of that town, though.
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Hard News: People Take Drugs, in reply to Bart Janssen,
Note this is also the town where there was a noise complaint upheld for snoring, they built a tunnel under the freeway for the frogs and they refused to repair the potholes in a dead end street because they felt by that time the potholes had become an ecosystem that should be preserved.
You're not really selling it to me. There's unpleasant smells all over public places...in rubbish bins, for instance, and in toilets.
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Hard News: People Take Drugs, in reply to Bart Janssen,
Nah I think they basically thought asking folks to walk through a cloud of smoke to get into a public building was just rude.
I can't agree with this sentiment. If it's not shown to be harming anyone else, and it's a public place, this seems like undue meddling to me.
sometimes driven by working in an industry which requires long and unsocial hours.
For example, use of amphetamines is supposed to be rife throughout the US meatpacking industry, where the work is physically very difficult, and the wages are insanely low.
Yes, they're popular with long-haul truck drivers, for whom staying awake is a matter of life and death.
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Hard News: People Take Drugs, in reply to Richard Aston,
Ritalin - a stimulant, the wee cousin of P .
The biggest P taker I know was put on Ritalin when he was a kid. A lifetime of altered consciousness.
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Hard News: People Take Drugs, in reply to Russell Brown,
A friend related one experience with a P loving gf who tried all night to get him to help her write out all of the Lotto combinations, convinced there weren't that many. No argumentation sufficed to show her that Lotto already thought of that.
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Yes, the kind of jabbering you hear from P heads has a real fingerprint.
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