Decentralise everything!

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Cake day: June 27th, 2021
  • Mohamed@lemmy.catoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why do pot or other drug dealers "lace" their drugs knowing full well it will pretty much kill their customer base and rep? Is this not like a retail store telling customers everyday FUCK YOU and hope
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    1 month ago

    I doubt it’s intentional. Dealers and other people in the middle of the chain cut drugs with things that lets them increase their supply. One could add active ingredients:

    1. Fentanyl is similar to heroin but much cheaper. Adding fentanyl can make a supply of heroin appear to be better quality.
    2. 25-NBOME is occasionally sold as LSD. It has somewhat similar effects.
    3. Benzocaines and other -caines could be added to cocaine. These -caines, including cocaine, all have a local numbing effect. Adding benzocaine can make the batch of cocaine feel like it’s got more cocaine than it actually does.
    4. Meth and amphetamines are often added to MDMA, since amphetamines give a similar energy focus boost like MDMA does.

    Oftentimes, the adulterant is inactive, and is added to the drug to make it bulkier.

    None of those are meant by the drug dealer to harm the drug consumer. The main reason why drugs do kill so many people, especially opioids, is that they are of unknown potency. For example, if one always takes the se amount of heroin when they get high, they might OD if, for example, a specific batch had more fentanyl than usual. Fentanyl is especially especially bad because it is very very potent, making it really easy to OD on.

  • Mohamed@lemmy.catoNews@lemmy.world•Phoenix Police officer kills homeowner who disarmed home invasion suspect
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    3 months ago

    Its not like its easy for the people to stop. Person À and Person B are both involved in a scuffle. Cop or whatever tells them to stop. If A stops but B doesn’t stop, A just gets his ass kicked as a best case, or might get killed as a worst case if B has a weapon, for example. And vice versa. They have to both stop at the same time, which means expecting coordination between them which is ridiculous.

    There’s also the very real possibility that the homeowner did stop and freeze, but person B kept attacking, and so the cop still shot at them since they didn’t both stop.

    It’s ridiculous that this needs explaining to a supposedly trained cop.

  • Mohamed@lemmy.catoNews@lemmy.world•*Permanently Deleted*
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    3 months ago

    It baffles me that it is even possible to summarily strip citizenship like that.

    Like, it would be a lot more reasonable if people born on US soil, only in the future, no longer get citizenship.

    But how can it be legal to remove citizenship by redefining the law, and then retroactively stripping people of it that no longer fit the definition? Like, isn’t this the same as making a law in 2026 banning smoking, and then going back and jailing anyone who has ever smoked?