keeping one step ahead of the law
People who want to get legally high and who think alcohol (or in certain states, marijuana) is just too old fashioned and boring, have entered a sort of cat and mouse game with state legislatures.
As soon as those august lawmaking bodies pass restrictions against some new mind bending substance, people who make those substances just change the chemicals up a bit.
Read this Deseret News story to get an idea of what s happening.patagonia sale online0 Several years ago, young people in Utah and elsewhere started getting high with substances called spice or with bath salts or, believe it or not, good old fashioned nutmeg, which can be smoked or consumed, as the experts say, to excess.
The Utah Legislature, forpatagonia sale online instance, outlawed some of these substances a few years ago. Until that time, police would find people acting strangely or in ways that posed a danger to themselves and others, but there was nothing they could do. According to this National Conference of State Legislatures story from late last year, 45 states apatagonia argentina real estate for salend Puerto Rico have banned at leapatagonia nano vest reviewst some of these substances.
Even in Washington state and Colorado, both of which recently legalized marijuana for recreational use, you can t get high on spice.
But not long ago news stories started to appear about chemical changes that were allowing people to remain just beyond the long fingertips of the law. Candy weed, or marijuana brownies made with a synthetic form of THC and mixed with corn syrup, is one of the latest trends.
Emergency rooms and poison control centers are reporting a surge in calls from people suffering ill effects. Synthetic marijuana, methamphetamine and even LSD are being concocted somewhere and distributed in parts of the United States.
And, as a special agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration told the Deseret News, It s killing people. It s destroying people s minds.
It s also destroying all those myths that simply legalizing drugs like marijuana will sap the strength of cartels and gangs. There apparently is no end to the expanding list of mind altering substances, each with the allure of either gaming law enforcement or providing a high that s not available over the counter.
And each is guaranteed to provide a nice profit to some seller.
Lawmakers have little choice but to draft some kind of catchall law that might end up being too broad, or to empower health officials to keep a step ahead of the changes, as some states have done.
The alternative is to simply legalize everything and to sacrifice unsuspecting and immature minds on the altar of permissiveness. That would not be my choice.
Jay Evensen
Jay Evensen is the Senior Editorial Columnist for the Deseret News. He has 32 years of journalism experience covering politics and a variety of other assignments at news organizations ranging frpatagonia sale online3om United Press International in New York City to the Las Vegas Review Journal and the Deseret News, where he has worked since 1986. During that time, he has won numerous local, regional and national awards.
alternative is to simply legalize everything and to sacrifice unsuspecting and immature minds on the altar of permissiveness have got to be kidding me. There is no evidence that any of these substances are dangerous. Just because people use them irresponsibly and overdose does not mean they are inherently dangerous. People overdose on alcohol and go to the ER as well. Do you suggest another prohibition era, or would you rather unsuspecpatagonia river master ii vest reviewting and immature minds on the altar of permissiveness marijuana, methamphetamine and even LSD are being concocted somewhere and distributed in parts of the United States even LSD Oh. My. God. LSD, oh no! Oh wait the history of its existance this substance has not killed anyone.
Why not educate yourself on these substances before you write a text like this that really makes you look pretty dumb.
So, let see: 11,406 sent to the hospital in 2010 by synthetic pot, according to the Drug Abuse Warning Network. Those users who have been taken to Poison Control Centers have exhibited the following symptoms: rapid heat rate, vomiting, agitation, confusion, increase in blood pressure, and a decrease in blood flow to the heart, which has even resulted in a few heart attacks.
You look pretty silly and naive saying is no evidence that any of these substances are dangerous. There is very little evidence that they aren dangerous. Why on earth would anyone want to use these substances?
First off Jay, you didn even respond to most of this man comment. You obviously cannot defend against the FACT that LSD is a completely safpatagonia sale online1e substance. In factpatagonia better sweater jacket for men, it has no known LD50 in humans.
Second, why do we need proof that everything needs to be 100% safe under all circumstances? Of course people being irresponsible and stupid is going to have negative consequences. People die all the time from alcohol poisoning. Heck, people get ill and sent to the hospital from snorting Wellbutrin or taking Oxycontin. Should we ban these substances too? What about Nicotine, Jay?
Also, this literally made me laugh out loud:
also destroying all those myths that simply legalizing drugs like marijuana will sap the strength of cartels and gangs. There apparently is no end to the expanding list of mind altering substances, each with the allure of either gaming law enforcement or providing a high that s not available over the counter. does this prove that AT ALL? If marijuana, LSD, psilocin, etc were legal, people would not have to buy the alternatives you call dangerous, and wouldn require the cartels to supply them. Your logic is completely flawed.
If you had any experience with these changing chemicals you would most definitely not make the assumption that this way of skirting around changing laws is alright. Even when used responsibly you never know when the companies who produce these legal smoking products alter their ingredients. I smoked a small amount once and later while in the bank, attempting to cash my paycheck I couldn write my name. Literally could not write. And this is coming from someone who did these legal drugs to try and not do illegal drugs anymore. Legislation should be all inclusive onpatagonia everlong review washing any chemical changes that could possibly be made to these people should definitely stick with tested and true substances, such as marijuana.
That exactly why people use those substances. Because of prohibition. I used to smoke a lot of cannabis before I went to jail. Afterwards, I decided to stop using it, primarily for legal reasons. In the endpatagonia sale online2, I stopped using it when it was still highly available and legal. If both were legal today, I would be able to say that I would use cannabis regularly, but never spice.
Whoever thinks this synthetic mess should be legal has lost their mind. My baby son (aged 20, but still my baby) is right now in restraints at the hospital because of this mess. He had been smoking this for a couple months thinking it was okay because it is sold legally at our neighborhood smoke shop. The past few days he has acted totally out of character. He was arrested in Pomona, Ca. last night because he was running in the streets naked (apatagonia guide jacket 3xlnd he extremely modest) was arrestpatagonia guide jacket 4xled and released within an hour or so by the police back into the streets before I could drive the 30 minutes to pick him up to get him help. Therefore he was gone and we searched for over 3 hours and could not find him. We came home and I filed a missing person report with our local police department and within a couple hours the police called stating he had been RE arrested for trying to break into someone home with no shirt on and the neighborhood had jumped him and tied him up and when they (the police) had arrived he had been banging his head into the asphalt, so he is now at the hospital in restraints. I begged the hospital staff to not release him until he was evaluated so he could get somepatagonia hiking boots used by special forces help. This stuff is no joke and capatagonia houdini giftn cause serious harm to a person mind. I pray to God there is no irreversible damage done to my son. I will be one to sign or back up anyone trying to squash this to prevent other kids and parents from going through this.
