I don’t agree with you. Cultural biases are a large part of how we frame our worldview. Take these tests to find out. Also, do you really believe that legal policy has been developed with no cultural bias? The evidence points to the fact that the laws have been written and amended to protect the rich. How else can the Sackler family get away with no gaol time for their crimes but there be so many people of colour in prison for the possession of cannabis?
Huh?! The federal marajuana laws came directly out of the resentment white Texans had for Mexican immigrants making an economic killing importing pot from south of the border during the great depression. Laws against the possession of crack cocaine are harsher than for possession of the powder. Care to offer a theory why?
Shocking isn’t it. Just under 3000 people died in the 9/11 attacks and the US and coalition partners invaded a country. The Sacklers participated in the deaths of 600,000 Americans and get away with a fine. Worse still, they get to pay the fine over ten years. The interest on their remaining capital will pay it off!
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Because smoking cocaine, which is how crack is normally ingested, creates a shorter and more intense response. It makes it more addictive. More highly addicted people are more likely to cause problems such as theft to support a habit they can't afford. More addictive substances are capable of being more profitable to those who supply them. So that is why the laws differ because the two substances have different effects.
Cocaine needs to be mixed with baking soda and water then heated up in water to create a salt I think it is that vaporizes when heated up. That's crack and that's one of two methods of making the crack form of cocaine. The other method requires more chemistry and smells bad when making it. The high from a hoot lasts about 20 minutes. Crack cocaine is so addictive that a evening of smoking it will get a person dreaming of more and yearning for it for days. A serious crack binge can last for maybe 2-3+ days without sleep and then the person is getting pretty tired and can damage their heart too because their heart beat is very high when high on crack. It's that powerful and good as a drug. Down and durty method is to mix a drop of water with equal parts cocaine and baking soda on tin foil and letting it dry and then heating the bottom of the foil with a lighter and inhaling the vapour. It's fast to make, gives a good hoot and a decent high for maybe ~10 minutes. Cocaine is far less addictive and the high is nowhere close to crack. So crack has a far worse reputation accordingly. My best advice is avoid tweakers. A tweaker is a person that smokes a large amount and gets really tweaked. They sometimes are desperate for money and due to the nature of the crack high people become aggressive and do things they probably would not do otherwise. The social disorder caused by crack is one reason why it is considered worse than cocaine.
We could go on and on regarding the disparities in the ways laws are made and justice is administered, but all that's going to do is ra
Especially since felony convictions can be used to limit the franchise! Moreover, the thirteenth amendment abolishes slavery for everything except convict labor, and that unpaid convict labor makes billions for corporations the CCA which contribute and lobby lawmakers lavishly.
We could unpack this but I’m going to suggest that we all cool it now as we are plainly in political territory. My feeling is that we’d end up broadly agreeing on the issues, having started from different axioms.
I disagree with part of this. AFAIK all studies have linked addictive potential to both the rapidity of onset, and the rapidity of offset. This is amply demonstrated by drugs in the same class such as opiates operating on the same receptor, and therefore which share the same mechanism of action. All the "safer" forms of opiates used for maintenance replacement are long acting, e.g. methadone and buprenorphine. But your point is well taken: methamphetamine has largely (but not completely) supplanted cocaine as the stimulant of choice. There are two main reasons: users are no so different than any other consumers: convenience and cost matter a great deal, and meth rules: $100 dollars might buy a two day supply vs an afternoon's.
Yes, we have that going on here too. The coppers are saying that the amount of meth files they handle compared to the previous year and the year before is much higher. Apparently users also fear fentanyl in the coke is what a meth dealer that talked to me in the pub told me. He told me he won't deal coke because of the fentanyl in it now and he does not want too be responsible for ODs; said the people distributing coke are not nice people and one is best served staying away from them. He said he can tell if meth is pure by the color and the crystals. It boggled my mind that coke distributors can be less nice than meth dealers.
Not so much. The problem with the naturally occurring cocaine--HCl (cocaine hydrochloride) salt is it has a much higher melting point 200C vs 100C and is easily pyrolyzed when heating to the higher temperature--in other words it's a somewhat fragile molecule that does better with gentle heating at temps well below those that potentially destroy it. I suspect a vaping device would allow the kind of precise temperature control to allow
Fucking fentanyl is a plague--it is now showing up even in fake Xanny bars. WTF. You want a nice few hour alcohol like buzz and end up with an opiate blitz, with 10x worse withdrawal symptoms. If I could buy futures, I'd be looking at pocket sized fetanyl detectors.Yes, we have that going on here too. The coppers are saying that the amount of meth files they handle compared to the previous year and the year before is much higher. Apparently users also fear fentanyl in the coke is what a meth dealer that talked to me in the pub told me. He told me he won't deal coke because of the fentanyl in it now and he does not want too be responsible for ODs; said the people distributing coke are not nice people and one is best served staying away from them. He said he can tell if meth is pure by the color and the crystals. It boggled my mind that coke distributors can be less nice than meth dealers.
Mundipharma, owned by the Sackler family, are actively using the same techniques that have caused the opioid crisis in the US in countries around the world. They will continue to profit from addiction with only financial penalties (eventually, if ever internationally) to be paid under favourable circumstances.
