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Monkey dust - which is highly addictive - has seen users turn to a live of crime to fund their addiction and can be bought for as little as a few pounds
THE 23 FACES WHO HAVE BEEN RAVAGED BY MONKEY DUST - Shocking photos show the ravaged faces of those whose lives have been ruined by 'monkey dust'. The drug, which can be bought for a mere £2 has led users to a dark path of crime, as well as violent and psychotic episodes. Some users, dubbed 'dustheads', have been responsible for a whole spectrum of offences - from petty shoplifting to brutal stabbings and terrifying rooftop sieges.
This is what the perpetual promotion of drug use leads to! Permission, not Prohibition Models are systematically driving ever increasing drug us! #preventdontpromote https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/victims-monkey-dust-ravaged-faces-18956597
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Patrick DeGrave’s brother was still in a medically induced coma in a Wisconsin hospital when he spoke to the local news. Standing before a crew from FOX 6 Milwaukee, he was ready to go public, and the vaporizer cartridge he held up for the cameras was the reason for his brother’s significant heart and lung damage.
The vapor product DeGrave showed to reporters was distilled from cannabis. But it was also apparently made by the “company” Dank Vapes — an elusive, black-market brand that’s as tricky to pin down as vapor.
They all seem to tell a similar story — that Dank Vapes may be fake. It’s a black-market “brand” that has inspired loyalty online but comes with serious risks.
“They act like a cannabis company, but they actually don’t exist. They’re in the packaging industry,” Mark Hoashi, founder of the Doja app, which is “Yelp for the cannabis industry,” tells Inverse.
“These are just people filling cartridges as ‘Dank Vapes.’ It’s not a singular facility. It’s just people in their garages filling them and selling them.”
Myron Ronay, the CEO of BelCosta Labs, a cannabis testing lab in California, tells Inverse that they often see black-market products that contain unsafe levels of myclobutanil — a fungicide. When myclobutanil is heated, it releases toxic fumes, one of which is hydrogen cyanide. Small amounts of HCN are released when smoking cigarettes, but larger doses are lethal. HCN was a major component of Zyklon-B, the gas used in Nazi gas chambers. Unregulated products, like black-market Dank Vapes, have no one checking to see where that line is drawn.
“That’s one of the most commonly discussed pesticides. That’s definitely one that we see frequently in the underground market,” says Ronay.
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Medical authorities say it is unclear whether patients will fully recover – US health officials are investigating around 100 cases of mysterious lung illnesses believed to be linked to vaping and e-cigarette use in 14 states. Many of those who have fallen ill are teenagers and young adults. A large number have been hospitalised, with some in intensive care and on ventilators.
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"There are, however, a few problems associated with the pill-testing proposal — legally, practically and ethically...If pill testing were to be implemented, it would require some significant legislative changes that would allow the proposed testers an exemption from the Misuse of Drugs Act, which makes it an offence either to come into possession of a drug or to supply it...Any testing employed by festival organisers would currently breach the law in both respects — by taking possession of the substance to test it, and by supplying it back to its owner."
Lawyer Tom Percy QC.
Whilst the genuine 'Harm Reductionist' (HR) - the people who hate drugs and want people to stop using, may see Pill Testing as a HR mechanism, be rest assured the pro-drug legalisers are clamouring behind this 'campaign', with one agenda; to further normalize drug use, by having not only perception, by legislation changed - to legalize by proxy! A 'Trojan Horse' by any other name!
More permission for drug use - the more engagement with drugs! And EVERY drug taking episode is an exercise in self-harm. The National Drug Strategy's aim is to reduce the harm, by reducing the uptake, engagement with and, only as a last resort, harmful outcomes of taking psychotropic toxins! Not, to promote, permit, enable, equip, empower and endorse ongoing drug use!
"Acceptability, Availability and Accessibility, ALL increase Consumption!"
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Music festival pill-testers continue to skirt the truth in their campaign to expand their services beyond Canberra. At last weekend’s Splendour in the Grass music festival at Byron Bay in northern NSW, the equipment was again on show, with claims that lives are saved with testing.
Testing is about identifying deadly contaminants, but the inconvenient truth out of the NSW coronial inquest into the series of drug deaths at music festivals is all deaths were due to an ecstasy (MDMA) overdose combined with environmental factors such as the weather, hydration and other drugs.
But it gets worse. Under sustained questioning last weekend, Canberra emergency physician and testing proponent David Caldicott continued to muddy the waters, claiming that upgrading to more advanced gas chromatography (GCMS) would allow more accurate measuring of the dosage.
It fell to toxicologists to mop up with the details, explaining that GCMS could establish dose only with additional testing and infrastructure — in other words, transporting expensive mobile laboratories to every music festival in the country. To determine an actual MDMA dose, the entire pill needs to be sacrificed for testing, defeating the point of the test for users who want their expensive pill back. Only suppliers with batches to sell would benefit
Caldicott’s methods open up a canyon of concerns, defended on the flimsiest of grounds — that it’s done overseas. Australia’s festival temperatures can be double Amsterdam’s, presenting serious risks of hyperthermia and dehydration. Combining even small MDMA doses with caffeine, alcohol and other drugs here can be lethal. So many consume pills before arriving at events that about a tenth of ACT clients required a second assessment to determine if they were too intoxicated to counsel.
Startlingly, the ACT trial had no age check to prevent minors being counselled or police checks to prevent suppliers sending in samples of their inventory for assessment.
The decision to discard pills is left to the user, which opens up possibilities such as on-selling, cocktailing with other drugs in an attempt to dilute the danger or, worse, retribution against festival dealers who supply about a third of the material.