The Drug That Never Lets Go

He was in a treatment program for marijuana. Most would agree that marijuana is portrayed by the US government and its law enforcement as being far more dangerous than it actually is. I wonder if someone who hears this portrayal of marijuana and realizes it's inaccurate also questions our government's accuracy when characterizing other more dangerous drugs like bath salts. If he had checked less biased sources like Erowid, he might have learned that he wouldn't be the first person to have a terrible experience with MDPV.

Also I liked the following quote:

“It's so hard to understand how something sold over the counter can result in death,” Julie Sanders said. “I can't grasp it, I just still can't grasp that thought.”

I guess she's not too familiar with Aspirin.

Drug education in the United States is dangerously flawed.

There will always be a demand for drugs. People want to get high. If drugs were sold in stores and manufactured under controlled conditions then people would know what they were buying. Dickie Sanders just wanted to get high not die. The rules are to blame here.

I was listening to this on the audiocast version on NPR. It's very good.

The image that is the four drugs side by side is hosted on imgur, which is unusual. http://i.imgur.com/P4csH.gif (right below the line “Because it's amphetamine, it's not recovering completely,” Kim says.)

Wonderfully laid out, however.