P escalation fears
This is evil shit, man. As NZ's top lawyer gets the TV star a home detention on a P supply charge and society fails to respond this time to the NZ Herald's baying for blood, we see very disturbing indications that the problem with P is only going to get worse.
Addiction is evil as it makes people do things that they would not normally consider. Think hurting others. Think dangerous driving, really dangerous. Think about it before you smoke a P pipe. Will you be able to think about it afterwards? Naw, doubt that, chum.
And youthful bravado adds kindling to the fire, providing fresh meat to infect with the P plague.
Kids are telling us to accept them and it is human instict to outdo one's parents usually botching up our lives in the attempt. By the time kids reach maturity, they look back in horror.
The trouble with something like P is no one believes the media about people eating their own hands. Nobody believes it because they put people in jail for cannabis and that is harmless and because they get their P from the same place, hell, it is harmless too! Such is the logic of a partly grown human mind or a reckless party animal.
A handful of people drown or dehydrate after dancing for 36 hours on E. Yeah, like so what? More people have drowned in their cars! If it is harmful or not is rarely examined. E has been around for a very long time and it is not addictive. It may cause dysfunctions in the brain's happiness (serotonin reuptake) functionality. But if you deal E, you risk very harsh jail sentences.
If you deal P, you may get off because it is so dangerously addictive is a mitigating factor. Is that legal logic or is there a reflection of the socio economic (class) clout of the typical P user being more like a young media exec than typical E users, burnt out bisexual nightclubbers?
There is a hint of the unproductive in our drug laws. As customs removed 265,447 E tablets (doses) from the drug economy they also removed 530,000 tablets (raw material) of ephridrine & pseudo ephridrine (legal cold medicines). But that is 265,000 instances of mad nightclubbers looking for a hit, and maybe only 50,000 instances of P taking removed. The market is thus more likely to be trained into P abuse.
The police and customs are trained to do a great job enforcing the law. The law itself could be a little more smart. If you run foul of it, its time to seek speak to a lawyer. But if you take P a few times, you may well need help to stop before it kills you.
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