People Do Drugs
Cocaine pollution in our rivers is making eels hyperactive, with drugs from our urine meaning eels may be too high to reproduce.…
A drug 80 to 200 times more potent than heroin is showing up all over Chicago. Overdoses from a synthetic form of fentanyl are being reported in most collar counties.… Heroin overdose deaths are skyrocketing. In Will County, there were 53 heroin-related overdose deaths last year. This year, that number could double. So far, 18 people have died, with two of them after overdosing on synthetic fentanyl.…
The Mexican drug cartels are finally meeting their match as a wave of cannabis legalization efforts drastically reshapes the drug trafficking landscape in the United States. It turns out that as states legalize cannabis use and cultivation, the volume of weed brought across the border by Mexican drug cartels dramatically decreases — and is putting a dent in their cash flow.…
Tulsa police arrested a naked man over the weekend after he was caught destroying a store’s bathroom. …stripped naked inside a Dollar General …started threatening customers …destroyed a wall in the bathroom and crawled out of it to leave. …appeared very agitated and seemed to be high on something. …
Luke Gregory Goodman of Tulsa… on vacation at the Keystone [CO] ski resort… ate four pot gummy bears… became jittery and incoherent… died Tuesday at a hospital after apparently shooting himself in the head. …
[From FOUR GUMMY BEARS? What the HECK are they putting in those things?]
There is more land devoted to opium production that ever before, in large part because more acres are being used as poppy fields in Afghanistan, according to a U.N. report released Thursday. … Myanmar is also ramping up opium production… [and yet:] The report found that drug use “is stable” across the world…
In the laid back California town of sunny San Rafael
Lived a girl named Pearly Sweetcake, you prob’ly knew her well.
She’d been stoned fifteen of her eighteen years and the story was widely told
That she could smoke 'em faster than anyone could roll….
—Shel Silverstein
Nearly half the teens in the U.S. don't see daily heavy drinking as a big deal... Nearly a third of the parents who took part in the study say there's little they can do to keep their kids from trying alcohol.... [Let's see... how much of the ginormous American anti-liberty Prohibitionist enforcement and incarceration industry budget has been going to fighting booze, the greatest scourge of all?]
[Headline for CBS scare-mongering propaganda: Teenage drug abuse skyrockets] At a June 2010 music rave in Los Angeles, thousands of teenagers were drunk and high, reports CBS News correspondent Ben Tracy.... 15-year-old Sasha Rodriguez drank water laced with ecstasy. She later overdosed and died.... It may seem shocking.... [OMG! Thousands at rave drink and do drugs! A teen died! Above-the-fold extra-large headlines!]
...between 2008 and 2010 teens who said they had used marijuana in the past year climbed to 39 percent from 32 percent.... Between 2008 and 2010, teens who said they had used the "party" drug ecstasy in the past year increased to 10 percent from six percent... 45 percent said they do not see a "great risk" in heavy daily drinking, while 31 percent strongly disapprove of their peers getting drunk. [Okay, Headline for this straightforward Reuters' report: Teen substance abuse on rise over past 3 years: study]
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