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Re: Your Friendly Neighborhood Drug Dealer

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Post by Myrmornis » Thu, Apr 24, 2014, 6:32 AM UTC

corin_ wrote: post #160

Myrmornis wrote: post #158

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> Even go somewhere where people don't drink and they wouldn't use the term "drugs" as an umbrella to include alcohol. Ah, interesting, I didn't know that. How many muslim cultures and languages are you familiar with?

That's my experience when people are speaking English, whether first language or not, in other languages I have no idea.

Right, but alcohol is currently legal in most English-speaking jurisdictions. So the places you're referring to are the least relevant to the question of whether alcohol is considered a "drug" by modern humans.

Re: Your Friendly Neighborhood Drug Dealer

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Post by thatswrong0 » Thu, Apr 24, 2014, 8:20 AM UTC

berberous wrote: post #142

WarDekar wrote: post #140

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From your own article: "The drug's letdown can include feelings of confusion, irritability, anxiety, paranoia and depression, and people may experience memory loss or sleep problems, jaundice or liver damage." And: "Dr. John Halpern, a Harvard Medical School assistant professor who led the research, said pure MDMA can change core body temperature, heart rate and blood pressure in the short-term, and decrease immune r…

It definitely varies by person. I know people who say they consistently get an afterglow and feel even better the next day, whereas others consistently feel the serotonin deficiency and can feel a bit depressed. The jaw clenching seems to be more universal.

There are also supplements that help prevent the negative side effects plus protect against some of the toxicity.. magnesium + gum for the jaw clenching, Vitamin C [1][2] + ALA [3] + Vitamin E [4] + others for antioxidants and preventing neurotoxicity and hepatoxicity.

1: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15212815 2: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/1098-2396%2820010... 3: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10619665 4: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11931860

Re: Your Friendly Neighborhood Drug Dealer

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Post by V-2 » Thu, Apr 24, 2014, 8:27 AM UTC

"At one residence, a businessman in his 40s opened the door, still dressed for the office in a suit and silk tie, still, by phone, issuing stern instructions to one of his colleagues"

Not very professional for a drug dealer, bringing a journalist to his customer's house (not to mention the customer accepting this fact without batting an eye). It reads like something Stephen Glass could have written.

Re: Your Friendly Neighborhood Drug Dealer

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Post by CocaKoala » Thu, Apr 24, 2014, 3:05 PM UTC

moheeb wrote: post #129

CocaKoala wrote: post #81

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...no? To my understanding the American Dream is based on the idea that anybody from any background can come to America, build something, and become successful; the freedom and opportunity to start small and build up. It's not about pulling money from nowhere, it's about turning sweat into capital.

Actually the American Dream includes folks that don't need to " come to America "...i.e. Americans.

They can come from anywhere in the world, including their mother's uterus.

Re: Your Friendly Neighborhood Drug Dealer

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Post by CocaKoala » Thu, Apr 24, 2014, 3:08 PM UTC

Myrmornis wrote: post #154

CocaKoala wrote: post #118

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The article talks about drug dealers. Unless you call the cashier at the local liquor store your dealer (and you're super weird if you do that; don't do that), it seems exceedingly clear from context that they're referring to illegal drugs. Blatantly ignoring contextual clues like that is obnoxious at best.

Wow, wtf? Why are you guys downvoting [username-redacted]? Of course a local liquor store is a drug dealer. You do realize the USA is not the only country in the world right, and that the USA is leading the world in cannabis legalization variously across different jurisdictions in the USA? Which drugs fall in the illegal set and which fall in the legal set depends on jurisdiction . Just because your mom and pop told…

Yes, but in an article about people who make a living breaking the law by selling illegal drugs illegally to people, it would actually be obnoxious and insulting to specify "hey guys when we talk about drugs we're only talking about the illegal variety"

Everybody understands that you're very clever for pointing out that alcohol is a drug too and that it's only ~The Man~ which makes some drugs illegal and others legal, but it's actually entirely irrelevant to the discussion being had in the article and your insistence on trying to appear clever is actually very tiresome.