I know someone who once (accidentally) took 30 sweeties in one go – they came from Amsterdam too – he was bringing them back, and made the mistake of using the swallowing them in condoms technique for doing so – 3 of the condoms burst in his stomach, and each one had 10 sweeties in it, so likely around 3g + of MD hit his system all at once (on the way through customs too – he said he felt it start to hit, and the next thing he remembered was waking in hospital, feeling great, and then wondering what the copper was doing by his bed… :crazy:)
OD’s are one of those funny things – what some people will take without harm, another can end up dead… And this random occasionally killing someone business that they make such noise about isn’t just exclusive to drugs or alcohol – every chemical has the potential to do it, and you can overdose on pretty much anything – even vitamin C has a researched LD50 (the lethal dose in 50% or more of test subjects) – it’s very high (something around 12g/kg), but thats the lethal dose in 50%, and obviously there will be a spread across the entire spectrum of dosages… For paracetamol, the LD50 is only 143mg/kg which means a dose of 13-14g will likely kill most adults, and toxicity starts to occur at far lower doses than this… Bit worrying when the therapeutic dose is 1-2g – makes for a fairly small dose window, and yet most people think nothing of knocking back a few paracetamol for their hangover… Don’t see any mention of the fact that your hangover cure (to paraphrase the numpty) “can and does kill unpredictably. There is no such thing as a ‘safe dose’…”
The whole point of having scientists look into these things is to get an objective viewpoint from intelligent people who have studied them… Don’t see the need for fools who come along and trot out some unqualified piece of dogma that has no scientific bearing on the subject to be printed at all… Pity most of those fools seem to be politicians who aren’t actually looking for any objective scientific viewpoints, and just want the results to mirror what they already think, or to fall into line with their political agendas… :you_crazy
S’pose it’s what we get for choosing our national leaders by popularity contest rather than ability to actually lead and/or think straight…
EDIT a little off topic: Just went off and read the governments response to the annual ACMD report (the one in which they accepted all recommendations esxcept for the one saying it should stay class C)….
Hysterical reading – I’m still reeling from the bit where they say that making the sentences harsher and more likely to involve jail terms isn’t going to increase the need for prison spaces :you_crazy:you_crazy:you_crazy:laugh_at::laugh_at::laugh_at:… We’re going to jail more people for cannabis offences, but not need the actual prison space for them??? Milo Minderbinder would have been proud of that one…. The document is here if you want to see what kind of lackwits are currently in charge of the country….
In comparison, the liberal democrats policy paper on the subject makes for refreshingly sensible reading – they seem to be the only ones who have a grip on effectively doing away with prohibition while still maintaining the international agreements the uk has signed previously…. Voting liberal democrat at the next popularity contest then methinks… Has to be better than the current Red Tory/Blue Tory coin toss/choice/lack thereof…
