Nicole reacts to the latest cheap high. First of all, I must say that if you use illegal drugs or drink, sniff, snort or smoke household products to get high you’re an idiot. However, we can’t ban or put behind the counter everything that idiot people’s idiot kids discover they can use to get high. Like Nicole said, “You can’t stop people from wanting to get high.” Seriously! What will it take to get lawmakers to figure that out?
And I just had a radical thought: If people insist on getting high wouldn’t it make sense to find or invent a substance that would give people a relatively safe high and make it legal and widely available? Of course, nothing is completely safe but I can’t help wondering if someone getting high horrifies some people more than someone dying.
Aside: Somebody help me. I’m afraid I’m not as nerdy as I’d like to be. What are the two chemicals mentioned in this post, in the third line after the quote?
January 26th, 2011 - 5:18 pm
Well, pot isn’t a bad “safe” high as far as highs go, from what I understand. At the very least it is highly unlikely you will attempt to harm anyone else when doped up.
Other than that, I think part of the attraction to getting high for some folks is the forbidden nature of it. Once you find something relatively safe and make it legal, someone will use way more than they should and get it banned, or folks will simply not use it because it is approved. We are a contrary bunch of critters.
And yeah, I wasn’t sure what those chemical names were either. I looked ‘em up and the first appears to be sucrose. The second appears to be glucose.
January 26th, 2011 - 7:43 pm
Yep. Your basic sugars. If you overprice them, some nimrod will try to huff them.
January 27th, 2011 - 4:42 am
First one is Sucrose, Second one is Glucose.
Crap. Sorry. Not awake. Nicole and CGHill already got it.
For a safe high, since marijuana is EVIL, EVIL, EVIL, BAD, BAD, WORSE THAN ANYTHING and illegal, we should be huffing oxygen. Yes, Oxygen. Lets see them ban that.
I think, however, we need to stop demonizing the plant that gives us C21 H30 O2, so that law enforcement can concentrate on doing the things they are really needed for, such as preventing crimes and tracking down criminals.
January 27th, 2011 - 4:52 am
While I’m at it, on a related (related to huffing) subject, I had an alarming experience at Wal-Mart. In the past, my youthful good looks have caused the Wal-mart people to check my ID for various glues, paints, and video games. I can see that, I guess. We don’t want some ten year old with knucklehead inattentive parents to buy Dimethylformaldehyde-based glue (that’s acetone, for those playing along at home) and then kill himself sniffing it.
My problem is this. I recently purchased, from Wal-mart, a pound of Pyrodex. (Which contains two allotropes of carbon, sulfur, and KNO3, I’m just on a roll this morning) i was not ID’d for the pound of Pyrodex. Someone explain to me, why we are IDing for glue, paint, games, but NOT gunpowder??
January 27th, 2011 - 8:27 am
Ah, sugar. I should have known. The health nazis would ban sugar, along with everything else that tastes good, if they could. Someday we’ll all be eating nothing but fat free yogurt and dry, tasteless protein bars that we wash down with health drinks that taste like dirty water and perhaps occasionally feasting on real vegetables and chicken grown illegally in our back yards.
Nicole – That’s a good point about the attraction of doing something because it’s illegal. I’m not sure if I think pot should be legal or not but I do think the amount of time and money spent chasing down and prosecuting growers and users is ridiculously out of proportion.
January 27th, 2011 - 8:46 am
And don’t forget: consuming too much Dihydrogen Monoxide can kill you.
January 27th, 2011 - 9:51 am
Snorting bath salts is better than licking frogs, which is another way to get high.
January 27th, 2011 - 10:44 am
Wait… what? I had to look that one up. It’s true.
January 27th, 2011 - 12:22 pm
People stupid enough to used bath salts for a high really ought to be given a lifetime supply of the stuff, as long as “lifetime” is defined as “Let’s stuff enough of this crap up their nose that they terminally OD and relieve the gene pool of the toxic waste that is their genes.”
A bit harsh? Maybe, but for society to carry these wasted doofuses (“doofi” *heh*) is an even harsher punishment of everyone else, IMO.
While we’re at it, how about similar “treatment” for drunk drivers? It’d save more lives than keeping the drunk drivers alive would.
But then we’d have to start on politicians inebriated by their power… Oh, well. A guy can dream, can’t he?
January 28th, 2011 - 7:20 am
How about using chronic DUI drivers as crash test dummies?