Lobotomy

Are you fucking shitting me? I can't have cherry flavored cigarettes, but it's somehow okay to give Candied stimulants to children?

Just kill me now, I don't want to live anymore. Everything about literally fucking everything is wrong.

CowboyXero

But Candy-flavored vapor products with no nicotine...baaaaaaad.

...this is my fucking surprised face.... makes the Fox Mulder deadpan stare

draaaak

Because this is what kids need...

blueingreen

Well you could have just taken a reduced dosage.

el_llama

These will go well with the fentanyl lollipops.

iamrage

This story was written by a butthurt recreational drug user.

"The government is allowing legal drugs to be flavoured, but they're not allowing recreational drug users to have our stuff WAHH WAHH WAHH"

Racer_the_observer

Someone is making a bundle of money on this and really does not care for the kids. Much like the opiates that are now being over prescribed and are killing so many people. The producers of the opiates are making billions a year and no doubt send a large share to the lawmakers that legalised them. Same with speed for kids. Its all about money and being a drug pusher without worry of arrest or lawsuits. I weep for the kids of this country. They are being addicted at an early age to assure a lifetime of profit for the pushers.

fagnig

Yes.

fagnig

Sugar is a drug?

Also, real drugs should be denied to kids? Kid gets caught in a car crash, pain control, no morphine, its a drug........

Sciency

Jesus fucking christ. They try and ban candy flavored nicotine vape juice, but they put amphetamines in to LITERAL CANDY. Fuck this gay earth

CelestialPhoenix

More and more people are catching on to the shenanigans so they try to come up with harder "distractions". Legalise that weed, that meth, that pill etc. Pfizer, Glaxosmithkilne, Roche and Monsanto, as drug dealers? Unless people have their game face those drugs are going to be pushed by Big Pharma and Monsanto and they are going to know that legalising was not meant to reduced usage but wanted to be commercialised.

fagnig

What about non-thc edibles? They are still medicinal and not drugs of abuse.

Sciency

Pretty sure he tagged that as sarcasm. But still, if you need something to help with pain caused by inflammation, CBD extracts are among the safest treatments in existence. All the THC does is make you hungry and puts you into an abstract state of mind.

In general, drugs are far more abused when they can be smoked, (because the experience is short-lived) compared to ingested. The first time you over do it with an edible, you're not gonna want to experience that again. With smoking, overdoing it just leads to an hour or two of anxiety at worst, rather than 12 hours of full blown panic.

It really is a fine line between "really" high and "oh fuck dear sweet baby jesus I just want to sleep but I can't because I'm pretty sure that sound outside was the cops" , high.

muffalettadiver

American's are like the anti-Nazi Nazis. Americans for destroying your race. Get dumb when you're young, so you can't fight when you're right.

PM_nudes_pls

its fucking insane. it literally is legal meth. same thing with pills, legal heroin. 0 difference.

Sciency

Methamphetamine is a type of amphetamine, but its wayyyyyy more powerful than what they prescribe would normally prescribe for ADD (though it does happen). However, there is literal "medical-meth," called Desoxyn among other names.

They supposedly use it to treat obesity, which I can only imagine is insanely effective, regardless of the brain-melting effects it has.

PM_nudes_pls

yes that is correct, I was a bit bold with my statement lol. what I was trying to get at was that the government has no problem giving people these substances which produce similar effects as substances on the street. shooting a Oxycodone 30mg is roughly the same as shooting heroin, not quite as potent depending on the dose, but you see what I mean.

meth is absolutely more powerful than what they would give children, but it still produces the similar effects of insomnia, detachment, and stunted growth. I know someone who was on those meds his whole childhood, as soon as he stopped taking them he was so much happier.

Marijuana_Merlin

IS that what the article says? Because I never read the word "Meth" anywhere. An Amphetamine is a stimulent. Such common ones include Caffine found in everything, especially coffee, all the crap found in energy drinks. All are amphetamines. Just because Meth is an Amphetamine does not mean they are also all Meth.

PM_nudes_pls

they actually are all different, but meth and the ones they are selling are very similar effect wise, both chemically and from experience lol.

Pawn

you've done meth?

PM_nudes_pls

Yup, I hate it. regardless, the negative effects it has on the body are similar to what they produce. nothing children should be consuming.

Pawn

thank you for your first hand account. I've always wanted to hear a first hand account. Describe the effects for me please, I also understand describing the effects can be harmful so its up to u wether u want to describe or not.

PM_nudes_pls

sure no problem.

there are different ways of doing it, I have done most except the big bad one: shooting. smoking it gives you a big rush for a few hours, then after about 3-4 you come down, but you have whats called legs, meaning you wont be able to sleep for a long time. because of this, you do more so you dont feel like shit. when I did it I would do it one day through the night into the next day, andd id go to sleep that next night. many people who do it will go many days without sleep, which is really bad. you start to do bad shit the longer you go without sleep.

snorting it gives you another big rush as well, but it really, really hurts for about 10-15sec. this is because of the HCL in it. yes, hydrochloric acid.

Ive probably also ate it, and it made me feel weird.

shuttyjohnbutty

You mean they're all stimulants, rather than all amphetamines, right?

Marijuana_Merlin

So you want to dilly dally with semantics to feel smart?

DrHugsyMcFur

k

shuttyjohnbutty

I don't argue with weed wizards on the internet to challenge my intellect. You're either misleading, or wrong, since you have chosen to stick by your statement?

Marijuana_Merlin

I googled and I stand corrected. I am not beneath second guessing myself upon furthur insistance.

Womb_Raider

Holy shit - someone who works for Monsanto is heading the FDA? Are you certain?

neveragainfatty

How it works is they have to step down from their business post before being able to accept the government job, so technically no, but in actuality this is how a lot of our regulatory agencies are headed up. Once he is done with the government job they usually go right back to their corporate work. They push regulation that will help them lead their corporation to greater and greater profits in the future independent of whether its best for American citizens.

InnatelyAcidic

You're referring to the Iron Triangle, but it generally goes in the opposite direction, government official succumbs to lobbying efforts in exchange for 'campaign donations,' as well as a cushy position once out of office, appointed or elected.

Citizens United is the key to most of this shit ending, before it was illegal accept bribes, now there are legal channels to easily syphon money into the plethora of easily corruptible Representatives pocket's

twentyfive

in the context of your question, thats impossible. Michael Taylor did a 4 year stint with them in 96-2000 hes been involved with FDA 2009 to present.

its all mafia and cronyism run anyways.

Womb_Raider

Terrified of who might replace him

Womb_Raider

I feel like the FDA betrayed us a long, long time ago.

Dangerous drugs should never be made delicious. They're dangerous enough as-is.

fagnig

Dangerous drugs should never be made delicious.

Meth is poisonous to the brain. There are other not methamphetamines which are safer, like amphetamine.

0iamlordeyayaya0

Methamphetamines and amphetamines are almost exactly the same. So much so that the main difference is the body just converts meth into amphetamine leading to a greater potency.

Under no circumstances should it be advisable to give a child a dosage of amphetamines every day (or ever) even if the side effects seem beneficial. Might as well shoot them up with heroin so they go to bed at night too.

ShineShooter

Amphetamine salts greatly reduce appetite, hence the stunted growth.

fagnig

No dain bramage tho

EdSnowden

LOL just wow

jerry

Mmmmmm tastes like stunted growth

0iamlordeyayaya0

And a life long drug problem. At least that homework will be done.