CAVEAT EMPTOR
Young Annabelle Catt was sadly killed by the highly toxic PMA she bought and took thinking it was ecsatsy. It is now being argued that governments should test illegal drugs so that their users can be warned when dangerous substances are available on the streets:
Young Annabelle Catt was sadly killed by the highly toxic PMA she bought and took thinking it was ecsatsy. It is now being argued that governments should test illegal drugs so that their users can be warned when dangerous substances are available on the streets:
To see just how fatally flawed the system is, you need to go back to Annabelle Catt's story. She died on 18 February. At that point, there was no indication that PMA was on the streets. There should have been.Uh, the risks attendant to medicating oneself with illegal drugs aren't exactly unknown. Caveat emptor.
posted by J F Beck at 10:09 PM
4 Comments:
The risks of medicating yourself with genuine ecstasy are almost zero - ditto heroin, cannabis, cocaine. People died from adulterated booze during alcohol prohibition in the US - and still do here and there where hooch is cheap.
Prohibition = killing people.
The risks of medicating yourself with genuine ecstasy are almost zero - almost, except the 'genuine' stuff still carries a risk of psychosis
heroin, cocaine - almost, except the the 'genuine' stuff is still highly addictive
cannabis - almost, except those hippies that grow their own 'genuine' stuff still manage to turn into fucked up pot-heads.
Ummm, Peter, she made a conscious choice to consume an illegal drug.
She died breaking the law.
Why should we give a rats?
rodw - we seem to agree about the meaning of "almost zero", which is agreeable.
steve, there's no reason at all why you should give a rat's. I wasn't suggesting people have to come over all weepy, just that the law is bloody stupid in this respect, and creates the problem this woman dies from. She didn't die from taking ecstasy, as she intended, but from taking a substitute slipped in by a member of one of the organised criminal gangs that have been legislated into effect since the 1920s. Neither they, nor prohibition of booze or drugs, existed before that period.
Prohibition is a failed, puritan and nannyish experiment that has had terrible consequences.
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