Comments on: Combining cocaine, alcohol, creates toxic cocaethylene stored in liver, blamed for heart attacks

By: Radical Russ

Radical Russ — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:33:35 +0000

I have a standard saying that marijuana is not a drug. I mean, the drug czar keeps telling me over and over that “crude marijuana” can never meet the FDA’s standard for a prescription drug, so, it’s not a drug, right?

To me, a drug is created when man takes the essences of a plant and synthesizes them into a standardized form. Aspirin, Marinol, heroin, and cocaine are drugs. Willow bark, cannabis, opium, and coca are plants.

Yes, cannabis, opium, coca, even certain fungi and toads are mind-altering, but they aren’t “drugs” in my mind, they are just plants, fungi, and animals with certain effects felt by humans. Nightshade, poison ivy, aloe vera, and hemlock are also plants with a certain effect on humans, but we don’t call them drugs, do we?

By: Common $en$e

Common $en$e — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:14:58 +0000

Yeah, but you do it right. Thoughtful, articulate, bulletproof arguments. It’s easy to say, ‘Hey, that’s bullshit man.’ It’s harder to explain WHY it’s bullshit, in a way that people who don’t already agree with you can understand.

By: sameoldwine

sameoldwine — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:39:00 +0000

This started happening in the mid 80′s in a big way. Healthy people doing coke during a big drinking night just up and died (even if they only did it once). My ex (a nurse) made me stop doing the evil powder when she stated seeing the deaths at the hospital.

I am glad I stopped then. It is a very seductive and dangerous substance in the refined form. Coca leaves don’t have that problem. Guess it’s good they don’t travel well and grow in only a few places.

By: Stash for Mon, Nov 9, 2009 | NORML Daily Audio Stash

Stash for Mon, Nov 9, 2009 | NORML Daily Audio Stash — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:01:55 +0000

[...] Combining cocaine, alcohol, creates toxic cocaethylene stored in liver, blamed for heart attacks [...]

By: Radical Russ

Radical Russ — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:33:02 +0000

And all for the amazing low price of… nothing! Knowledge yearns to be free.

But really, I’m just the messenger. This Thursday marks NORML’s 39th birthday. Keith Stroup and a whole bunch of people made this common sense knowledge available and many many more donated the money and time to bring it to the public. Me, I’m just a snarky entertainer who delivers the pitch.

By: Common $en$e

Common $en$e — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:18:22 +0000

Thanks for speaking the truth, Russ. You make available a vast amount of common sense knowledge for anyone who wishes to actually learn the truth.