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Underground Website Lets You Mail-Order LSD, Cocaine

Drugs. Let’s face it, who can live without their high? Not you, that’s for sure. Which is why it might delight you to know that there is now a new website where you can buy your drugs of choice without ever having to rely on a scatterbrained drug dealer (don’t you hate it when they say 30 minutes and 3 hours later they have yet to appear?), having to rustle the courage to go some dodgy part of town to get the good sh*t, and of course there’s always that price gouging, which makes life miserable too.

Which brings us to the little gem of a write-up from Gawker.

gawker: Making small talk with your pot dealer sucks. Buying cocaine can get you shot. What if you could buy and sell drugs online like books or light bulbs? Now you can: Welcome to Silk Road.

About three weeks ago, the U.S. Postal Service delivered an ordinary envelope to Mark’s door. Inside was a tiny plastic bag containing 10 tabs of LSD. “If you had opened it, unless you were looking for it, you wouldn’t have even noticed,” Mark told us in a phone interview.

Well, trust Gawker to come up with all this. But who can complain? You’ll take your high any way you can get it. Right? So, now let’s get down to the dirty - how does all this new-age getting high stuff work? Just in case you were interested of course…

Mark, a software developer, had ordered the 100 micrograms of acid through a listing on the online marketplace Silk Road. He found a seller with lots of good feedback who seemed to know what they were talking about, added the acid to his digital shopping cart and hit “check out.” He entered his address and paid the seller 50 Bitcoins—untraceable digital currency—worth around $150. Four days later the drugs, sent from Canada, arrived at his house.

“It kind of felt like I was in the future,” Mark said.

The future? Can you imagine it- in the future when you wake up there will be a big old casket of the good sh*t waiting for you in your mailbox and your mailman wont be the one the wiser. Nor will your neighbors, who have been wondering who that strange dude is who keeps knocking on your door at strange hours of the day. Yes- being  a druggie can be bad news- but since it’s what gets you not through the day- why not make it as unpleasant as possible?

Silk Road, a digital black market that sits just below most internet users’ purview, does resemble something from a cyberpunk novel. Through a combination of anonymity technology and a sophisticated user-feedback system, Silk Road makes buying and selling illegal drugs as easy as buying used electronics—and seemingly as safe. It’s Amazon—if Amazon sold mind-altering chemicals.

Used electronics? Faux Amazon? If you say so Gawker. Now let’s get to the gravy bitches.

Here is just a small selection of the 340 items available for purchase on Silk Road by anyone, right now: a gram of Afghani hash; 1/8th ounce of “sour 13″ weed; 14 grams of ecstasy; .1 grams tar heroin. A listing for “Avatar” LSD includes a picture of blotter paper with big blue faces from the James Cameron movie on it. The sellers are located all over the world, a large portion from the U.S. and Canada.

 
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A culpa não é minha, é tua!: Cocaine

A culpa não é minha, é tua!: Cocaine: "cocaine shot into Duncan Andrews’ antecubital vein in a concentrated bolus after having been propelled by the plunger of a syringe. Chemical alarms sounded immediately. A number of the blood cells and plasma enzymes recognized the cocaine molecules as being part of a family of compounds called alkaloids, which are manufactured by plants and include such physiologically active substances as caffeine, morphine, strychnine, and nicotine."

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Drug arrests: up to 1,000 hits of LSD, cocaine, ecstacy | citizen-times.com | Asheville Citizen-Times

Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and BeyondDrug arrests: up to 1,000 hits ofLSD, cocaine, ecstacy citizen-times.com Asheville Citizen-Times: "man from eastern North Carolina is facing charges of trafficking LSD after police say they found him with 500-1,000 doses of the hallucinogenic drug.
Travis Aaron Scarberry, 23, of Lillington was also charged with possessing 249 grams of psilocybin, a type hallucinogenic mushroom, and eight grams of MDMA commonly known as ecstasy, according to Buncombe County arrests reports.


Scarberry was arrested Saturday night and held at the Buncombe County Detention Facility under a $26,000 bond."

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Koppel’s Son Had Heroin, Cocaine, and Prescription Drugs in System at Time of Death -- Daily Intel

Koppel’s Son Had Heroin, Cocaine, and Prescription Drugs in System at Time of Death -- Daily Intel: "There was more than just booze coursing through the veins of Ted Koppel's son when he died in a stranger's apartment in Washington Heights last month. According to coroners, 'he died from acute intoxication due to the combined effects of alcohol; heroin; cocaine; diazepam, the generic form of Valium; and Levamisole, a drug used to cut other drugs.' It was ruled an accident. Andrew Wemberly, the stranger who befriended him and went on a drinking binge at his side, eventually taking him home to sleep it off, had said at the time: 'There was a lot of alcohol. He didn't take anything else [drugs] around me, and neither of us ate all day.' That dude's not talking today."
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Cocaine is used by more than 13 million people worldwide, about 0.3 percent of the global population age 15 to 64 years.

Cocaine is used by more than 13 million people worldwide, about 0.3 percent of the global population age 15 to 64 years. Use and abuse are most prevalent in North America (6.3 million people, 2 percent of population older than 14 years) and South America (2.7 million people, 0.94 percent) and in Western Europe (3.4 million people, 1 percent). Current use in the United Kingdom and Spain has reached the levels of the US. There is relatively little cocaine use in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, and Oceania. This pattern may be due to supply rather than demand factors, because of the difficulty in obtaining cocaine from its only source in South America and the ready availability of alternative synthetic stimulants such as amphetamines.
Most cocaine use is by urban men age 15 to 35 years. About 126,000 (6.2 percent) current users in the US are adolescents 12 to 17 years old. Cocaine use has declined somewhat among this age group in the last few years, but has remained steady in older groups. More than one-quarter of past year cocaine users (more than 1.5 million) meet psychiatric diagnostic criteria for cocaine abuse or dependence. Yet in 2004, only 884,000 cocaine users received substance use treatment.
Cocaine is the illegal drug most often associated with visits to US hospital emergency departments. In 2005, it was involved in an estimated 31 percent of drug-related emergency department visits (about 450,000 visits), versus about 17 percent (240,000 visits) for marijuana and about 11 percent (165,000 visits) for heroin. Almost one-fifth of cocaine-related visits were by patients seeking detoxification; 3.2 percent were for suicide attempts.
Patterns of use — Cocaine is used in a variety of patterns. The typical “binge” involves short periods of heavy use (eg, payday or weekends) separated by longer periods of little or no use. Others may use for an extended period until their finances are exhausted or access to cocaine is interrupted. A small number of users who are self-medicating an underlying neuropsychiatric disorder, such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) or narcolepsy, may use low doses daily without dose escalation over time. Most cocaine users living in the community do not use very frequently. Half (49.1 percent) of past year users used less than 12 times in the year; only 2.5 percent used at least 300 times.
Risk factors for use and abuse — While cocaine use occurs in all sociodemographic groups, it is not equally distributed among the US population. The highest prevalence of use is among unemployed men in their 20s with no more than a high school education who live in urban areas. Cocaine use is highly associated with use of other legal and illegal substances and with psychiatric disorders. Cigarette smokers and heavy alcohol drinkers are 10 times more likely than others to be cocaine users. Among current (past month) cocaine users, 92 percent use alcohol and 79 percent smoke cigarettes (73 percent use both). Almost half are heavy drinkers (five or more drinks on the same occasion on at least five days in the past 30 days). Concurrent use of cocaine and alcohol produces a new compound, cocaethylene, which is pharmacologically active. Many cocaine users use other substances either to enhance the “high” (eg, simultaneous use of opiates ["speedballing"]) or to ameliorate adverse effects of intoxication or withdrawal (eg, use of alcohol, cannabis, or benzodiazepines). Current cocaine users are twice as likely as non-users to have symptoms of depressive or anxiety disorders. Among past year cocaine users, almost one-quarter reported serious psychological distress during that year.
Cocaine users are at high risk for abuse or dependence. Community-based interview surveys suggest that up to one in six persons who use cocaine will become dependent. Heavier users and users who take the drug intravenously or by smoking are more likely to become dependent than lighter users or intranasal and oral users. The greater abuse potential of intravenous or smoked cocaine is attributed to the faster rate of drug delivery to the brain (within 10 seconds), and faster onset of psychological effects. This faster onset is associated with a more intense pleasurable response (the so-called “rate hypothesis” of psychoactive drug action).
The environment (including family, religious, and social factors) has the strongest influence on initial cocaine use. Studies of drug use by pairs of fraternal (dizygotic) and identical (monozygotic) twins suggest a significant genetic influence on the risk of developing cocaine abuse or dependence after use has begun. Several promising candidate genes have been identified, including those for dopamine receptors and the dopamine transporter, but no specific gene has been clearly linked with cocaine addiction. Cocaine enhances monoamine neurotransmitter (dopamine, norepinephrine, and serotonin) activity in the central and peripheral nervous systems by blocking the presynaptic reuptake pumps (transporters) for these neurotransmitters. Cocaine’s positive psychological effects and abuse liability are considered to be due to its enhancement of brain dopamine activity, especially in the so-called corticomesolimbic dopamine reward circuit. Thus, cocaine addiction has been termed a disease of the brain’s dopamine reward system.
Cocaine is unique among stimulant drugs in having a second action of blocking voltage-gated membrane sodium ion channels. This action accounts for its local anesthetic effect, and may contribute to cardiac arrhythmias.
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