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2009-08-31 -Lurid Crime Tales-

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Posted by Anonymoose 2009-08-31 17:56|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Nearly a third of all cocaine seized in the United States is laced with a dangerous veterinary medicine - a livestock de-worming drug that might enhance cocaine's effects but has been blamed in at least three deaths and scores of serious illnesses.

The medication called levamisole has killed at least three people in the U.S. and Canada and sickened more than 100 others. It can be used in humans to treat colorectal cancer, but it severely weakens the body's immune system, leaving patients vulnerable to fatal infections.

Scientific studies suggest levamisole might give cocaine a more intense high, possibly by increasing levels of dopamine, the brain's "feel-good" neurotransmitters.

Drug Enforcement Administration documents reviewed by The Associated Press indicate that 30 percent of all U.S. cocaine seizures are tainted with the drug. And health officials told the AP that most physicians know virtually nothing about its risks.

Posted by Anonymoose 2009-08-31 17:58|| 2009-08-31 17:58|| Front Page Top

#2 And this is bad because?

Posted by 3dc 2009-08-31 18:27|| 2009-08-31 18:27|| Front Page Top

#3 Let's see ,,, doing drugs are bad.

Drugs have levamisole, paraquat, camel shit and other nice ingredients in them.

Then there are the "high" drugs that helped Aids migrate to humans. Stuff popular in San Fran communities like Amyl that totally wipe out your immunity...

Doesn't sound healthy to me.

Posted by 3dc 2009-08-31 18:32|| 2009-08-31 18:32|| Front Page Top

#4 Well, Congress should pass a law that all cocaine must be approved by the FDA!

Posted by crosspatch 2009-08-31 18:58|| 2009-08-31 18:58|| Front Page Top

#5 Or they could just recognize that it was legal for longer than its been illegal and allow it to revert to its prior status. I've always thought that people hell-bent on killing themselves shouldn't necessarily be discouraged but that we might want to give some though to taxing their stupidity as they exit.

Posted by AzCat 2009-08-31 20:21|| 2009-08-31 20:21|| Front Page Top

#6 You assume that the consumers don't know that it's cut with some pretty awful crap.

I mean, some of them might actually like that...after all, there is a market of sorts for people who like marijuana marinated in embalming fluid.

Posted by Cornsilk Blondie 2009-08-31 21:19|| 2009-08-31 21:19|| Front Page Top

#7 Drugs are bad, m'kay?

Posted by Mullah Richard 2009-08-31 22:50|| 2009-08-31 22:50|| Front Page Top

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