Stay off the Special K

Portugal, a more enlightened society.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/sep/05/portugal-drugs-debate

Stay off the special K, folks, it’s mushy season soon enough anyway 😀

PBO said :

Seems a bit didgy to me, Ketamine is a very hard drug to overdose on and is undetectable in the body after 5-6 hours. Sounds like they may have taken Lethabarb instead.

It’s unlikely that what they took was pure Ketamine if it was sold as ecstacy. It was probably a mish-mash of a whole bunch of garbage.

Ben_Dover said :

Dr Peter Robertson from ACT Health said this incident is a stark reminder of the damage making drugs illicit can cause.

Fixed.

Word.

Why don’t they just make all illicit drugs illegal? That’ll fix it.

IP
MSc(Sarcasm)

Ben_Dover said :

Dr Peter Robertson from ACT Health said this incident is a stark reminder of burying your head in the sound and ignoring harm minimisation measures.

Fixed.

Fixed again.

Its important to always, i repeat, ALWAYS, buy your drugs from a trust worthy supplier…

Dr Peter Robertson from ACT Health said this incident is a stark reminder of the damage making drugs illicit can cause.

Fixed.

““It’s disturbing that people continue to take these substances, and they have no idea the kinds of poisons they contain,” said Dr Robertson.”

The perfect reason why the government should be selling these drugs legally and keeping quality controls on the substances people are ingesting.

It doesn’t help when the Health Department’s warning messages are inaccurate and contradictory.
Yesterday they said the two men mistakenly believed they had bought ‘MDMA aka speed’. Today they’re saying the two men mistakenly believed they had bought ‘ecstasy’.

For the freaks and ravers playing at home, access to correct and timely information about what’s being sold and what the dangers are is important. You’d reckon the Health Department would know the difference between MDMA and MDA.

Of course in countries enlightened enough to allow pill testing in clubs and at events, people have the opportunity to check what’s in their pills before they consume them. And before people wet their pants about ‘giving up, condoning drug use, blaa blaa blaa’, pill testing does not condone drug use. It responds to the reality of drug use: that drug use is common and carries an inherant risk that can be mitigated by access to good information.

Seems a bit didgy to me, Ketamine is a very hard drug to overdose on and is undetectable in the body after 5-6 hours. Sounds like they may have taken Lethabarb instead.