Saturday, October 22, 2005

The Truth Is What You Cannot Deny

Is the truth really what you want?

Would you rather get wasted, or work three jobs to send money to starving children in Africa?
Would you rather discuss serious societal issues, or play beer pong?
Would you rather drive 70 miles an hour on the da freeway bumpin to your favorite tunes, or speak out against global warming?
Would you rather be one of the in crowd, or be on the outside looking it?
Would you rather be in capitalist heaven (on television), or capitalist hell (in an unsanitary diseased hut in Africa)?
Would you rather be born in America or Africa?
Do you realize a dumpster in America could feed an entire village in Africa?
Do you realize millions of chickens, cows, pigs, and trees are slaughtered in cold blood to feed the human economical machine?
Do you care?
Do you hear the pain in screams of ravaged women and bone-thin children?
Do you hold the weight of the world on your shoulders?
Do you live life like a dream?
Do you think everything happens for a reason?
What about all the suffering? What reason is there for that?


The truth is what you choose to focus your experience upon. Right now people are dying in masse, because of hunger and curable diseases- but how does that affect you right? It's not your responsibility to save anyone, is it?

The New Enlightenment shall come with the emergence of groups not afraid to confront the darkness of reality. To conquer this evil we must penetrate the depth of our shadows- shining light on the suffering of all.

Wednesday, July 06, 2005

Dummy's Guide to UnLegal Drugs

Legal drugs kill 600,000+ Americans a year. Illegal drugs kill 10,000 Americans a year.

Coincidence? Obviously the government wants people to do deadly drugs. The more lethal a drug, the sooner drug abusers croak. That means more land and breathing room for the rest of us. Good thinkan politicians! If the Drug War propaganda seen on television and in schools has you confused, hopefully this page will provide a needed dose of truth.For objective, citable resources on the utter success of the Drug War (in building jails and crime), go to Drug War Facts. Draw your own conclusions!

The goal of this short essay is to stress the illogical and confused pharmaceutical policy. It shows the doomed goals of a Drug Free America, when Americans are the most drugged nation in the world, downing over the counter, prescription, and illegal substances. It is a shame the policy makers in the United States have handed the hard drug market to criminals, thus turning our streets into warzones for the War on Drugs, and our children into targets for dealers and police alike. Only a sane reevaluation of drug policy can rescue our inner cities from the cycle of drugs and violence. What do you think?

TetraHydroCannabinold (THC): The primary chemical in marijuana responsible for its psychoactive effects. THC affects one's cannabinoid receptor systems- namely the CB1/2 receptors. One natural cannabinoid is anadamide-Sanskrit for bliss, isolated in 1989. Evolutionary biologists tell us the cannabinoid system came into existence about 600 Million Years Ago. Cannabinoids are in every living animal on the planet above Hydra and Mollusks, with the exception of insects. Yes, your dog/cat gets high! THC is a sticky molecule which agonizes CB1/2 receptors in parts of the brain responsible for motor coordination, memory, emotions, time perception, attention, and reward systems. The reason for THC's complete safety is the lack of receptors in respiration areas. You could smoke literally a pound of marijuana without neurotoxic effects. Translation: getting high affects your memory capabilities, can cause euphoria (pleasure), increased appetite, motor effects, temporal distintegration (not being with the current situation), analgesic effects, etc. n interesting fact about THC is that it stimulates capsaicin-sentitive sensory nerves. Capsaicin is the spicy oil in hot peppers.
The market-changing potential of hemp, the industrial cannabis fiber grown by Thomas Jefferson and George Washington, explains illegal status of this benign, beautiful, and beneficient organism. Hemp provides paper, fuel, clothing, fiber, and food. If its industrial use was legal in the United States, it could provide paper without deforestation, nutritious food, and tough yet biodegradable fiber, environmentally safe paint, and many other goods. For God sake's, hemp has been utilized by human civilization since the beginning of civilization, until 1937 Marijuana Tax Act- which started cannabis prohibition in the United States today. The recent Supreme Court decision forbidding self-medication in permitting states, combined with the 800,000 yearly marijuana arrests demonstrates the American government's illogical attachment to cannabis prohibition. THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE was drafted on cannabis paper!
Moral: Why smoke marijuana when you can cook with the fragrant herb, or vaporize- boil the THC without burning the plant?

Heroin (diacetylmorphine): Heroin, now possessing a strongly negative social stigma, was synthesized by combining vinegar (acetic acid) with morphine extracted from the opium poppy, a plant used medicinally by humans for thousands of years. Bayer started commerically producing heroin in 1898, intially touting it as a wonder drug. It was sold over the counter in lozenges and in liquid formulations. An opiate, heroin triggers the opiate receptors in the body: mu, kappa, theta, and nociceptin. It causes euphoria, reduces pain, and can cause overdoses through its receptors in respiration areas. Much of the danger from heroin arises if users choose to inject the drug, drastically enhancing the euphoric rush, while risking enemas, disease sharing, and overdose. There are people who use heroin recreationally, but a good deal of the people who start down the road of injecting end up ruining their lives. Most people have a pharmaceutical relative of heroin in their medicine cabinets: Vicodin (hydrocodone), Percoset (oxycodone), or Demerol (meperidine)- these are have similar effects to heroin.
Moral: If you like sticking needles in your arm, puking all over yourself, then nodding out into the Garden of Euphoria, heroin is the drug for you.

Methamphetamine: Known on the street as Tina, crystal meth, or ice, methamphetamine played a big part in fueling the Nazi regime. Hitler received daily shots of meth from his doctor. It causes its stimulant effects through affecting the dopamine and norepinephrine systems. Dopamine is the neurotransmitter (molecular key) involved in reward, motivation, attention, learning, and movement. Norepinephine is the neurotransmitter involved in movement, mood, and energy. If you compare the molecules dopamine and norepinephrine with methamphetamine, you will discover they are quite similar. Their similar shapes allow meth to directly affect the DA and NE neural systems, causing euphoria, stimulation, motivation, and motor effects. The cops just announced meth is now the biggest illegal drug problem in the United States. Methamphetamine is even given to kids diagnosed with ADD, under the brand name Desoxyn. What twisted logic dictates little kids get dosed with Hitler-worthy stimulant, and others get put in jail for using the same drug- to stay awake, to finish projects, etc. Millions of students are now abusing Adderall or Ritalin as motivation in a pill- energy to study the dry and unending topics forcefed down their throats. The illicit market price is $2-3 a dose, for an intense non-stop night of study.
Moral: In a instant gratification society pressed for time and conveinence, it is little wonder stimulants are popular. One imagines the day when these stimulants are given to anyone who wants them, because they turn people into robotic work machines.

Cocaine- One hell of a drug!

Psilocybin - Found in psilocybin species of mushrooms, this phytochemical

Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (LSD/acid) - Invented by Albert Hoffman in 1944

MDMA- Known as ecstasy.

2CB- Also known as Nexus

DMT - The most intense drug

To be continued

Dummy's Guide to Legal Drugs

In the Hedonistic States of America, pleasure is the cornerstone of the power structure.

Let's take a survey of commonly used drugs:
Before you start reading, keep these facts in mind.
1. You are able to think, perceive, feel, love, hate, and move because of neurons (nerve cells).
These cells transmit information through the flow of electrochemical potentials (similar to a battery).
2. Receptors are chemical locks on the membranes (outside) of neurons. They are usually found in the tiny synaptic spaces between neurons.
3. The natural keys for your receptors are chemicals in your brain, such as serotonin, dopamine, adrenalin, anandamide, endorphins, oxytocin, etc. The chemical structure of many drugs resembles the natural keys already in your brain- partially explaining their psychoactivity (mind alteration).
4. Drugs cause changes to your perception by altering the chemistry in your neurons.
5. A study of drug history reveals every culture since the beginning of written history has used drugs to alter their consciousness.

Three of the most profitable brand names on the planet: Budweiser (alcohol), Marlboro (tobacco), and Coca Cola (caffeine). All legal drugs...very interesting...Let's delve deeper!

Alcohol (CH3CH2OH): Sitting on High Street near The Ohio Street University in Columbus Ohio, I watch as beer delivery trucks drop their diluted ethyl alcohol products at each watering hole: Zigs (otherwise known as 4 Kegs), Out or In, Larry's, Scarlet and Grey, etc. A Buckeye is hardpressed to stay sober in this alcohol-saturated environment. And why would you want to be sober anyway? Then you would have to come to grips with all the other drunk fuckers driving around town, hittin cars and zooming away. Just last night on my porch I saw two hit and runners, both of whom went out of sight before I could catch the plates. I've three marks on my green Corolla from drunk drivers. My friend Ashley Hach's life was ended by a drunk driver going the wrong way on the freeway. 100,000 People die every year in the United States because of Alcohol. At least 50% of all violent crime and all automobile accidents are due to alcohol! Yet laws still allow places to serve huge gallons of overpriced alcohol to the general public. Laws still permit semi drunk people to drink around, even with the disasterous consequences. Did you know: ethyl alcohol = ethanol = alcohol. Check the label on your hand sanitizer. It says ethyl alcohol, probably about 62%. 151 Proof Rum is 76% alcohol. Wine is around 10% alcohol. And 73.3% of Americans have used alcohol in the past week.
Legal because it gives tons of profits to big companies. Legal because it has been used by humanity since we ate fermented berries. Legal because it gives the cops something to do- violating your Constitutional right to privacy under the guise of protection. It is legal because it legitmizes state interference in your personal life. It is legal because it is a Trojan Horse from the political powers- here you can get fucked up and buy our friend's drinks, and then we'll have the police we buy to escort you to the jail we built, when you drive the cars we sold you. It is legal because it annihilates your mind-powers- a great boon for the people in charge, because indepedent thinking could lead to change. Alcohol agonizes Gamma Amino Butyric Acid receptors, like Xanax, Valium, Rohpoynol (known on the street at roofies), GHB (known as G). The Media warns us about illegal date rape drugs, but over 60% of all rapes occur under alcohol's influence. We have literal date rape implementation locations, which are today called bars. Millions of Americans get drunk to forget their inhibitions- to wrap their car around a tree, to beat their wife, abuse 10 year olds, or to rape a passed out person. Needless to say, alcohol is a GREAT TIME! Goodbye conscience, hello stuttering stumbler. And let's not even touch Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.
Moral: The only legal drug to get shitcanned- systemically shutting your brain down with hand sanitizer. Alcohol will temporarily relieve you of your anxiety, and your sanity.

Caffeine C8H10N4O2: Starbucks knows the business of keeping people alert and happy. Their employees are treated well, as this drug company knows well the complex details of business systems. Across America, Starbucks and Subway, the double S's are applying the same Midan formula: Start franchises in every available real estate space, especially in cities/suburbs/at rural exits. Make sure the signs are visible from the road. Provide a quality perishable product at a pseudo-reasonable price, one that will keep people coming back for conveinence and experience. Caffeine, classified as a methylxanthine, blocks (sleep-causing) adenosine receptors and therefore causes bodily stimulation. Many dissertations/TPS reports/term papers/leases have been written under the influence of coffee. A cup of Joe and a peppermint does wonders for sleepyheads.
Moral: A benign stimulant- likely the most used drug in the world.

Nicotine (C10H14N2): Present in tobacco leaves, the carcinogenic (that's cancer-causing, folks) deadliest drug in human history, it has killed over a billion humans. Billions more humans rely on tobacco cigarettes daily for their dirty cancer-stick cookies- which are sophistocated drug delivery devices containing crack nicotine. Tobacco kills 400,000 Americans a year, 4 times as many Americans as alcohol. Yet they are still legal and accepted, and Marlboro and Budweiser are two of the most profitable brand names on the planet. 80-90% of all schizophrenics smoke cigarettes. Nicotine is a potent neurotoxin (kills brain cells), and is included in many insecticides. Two drops of pure nicotine kills a human. Nicotine preys on the same pleasure pathways as heroin and cocaine, and is just as addictive.
Moral: Over a billion smokers can't be wrong.

Nitrous Oxide (N2O): The Chemical formula for nitrous oxide is N2O. Compare to Water's which is H2O. N2O is also known as laughing gas, dinitrogen oxide, whippets, or hippie crack (for the people who spend their whole day high on nitrous). It's psychoactive effects have been known for 200 years. It is used commercially as a dental pain-killer, a power-booster for engines, and a whipped cream propellant (because it dissolves into fat and tastes sweet). It is approved by the FDA as safe for human consumption. Each nitrous oxide molecule is 2 Nitrogen atoms and one oxygen atom. Compare that to water (H2O), which is 2 Hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom. The air we breathe is 70% Nitrogen, and 22% Oxygen- these are the two elements you ingest with nitrous oxide.
Moral: Two ways you can actually hurt yourself using N2O:
1) Falling while under the influence
2) Not breathing air with N2O

3) Inhaling it straight from a metal nozzle or cracker, because the rapid gas expansion can freeze your lips or fingers.

Crocker Rules

From Shock Level 4 Discussion

Declaring yourself to be operating by "Crocker's Rules" means that other people are allowed to optimize their messages for information, not for being nice to you. Crocker's Rules means that you have accepted full responsibility for the operation of your own mind - if you're offended, it's your fault. Anyone is allowed to call you a moron and claim to be doing you a favor. (Which, in point of fact, they would be. One of the big problems with this culture is that everyone's afraid to tell you you're wrong, or they think they have to dance around it.) Two people using Crocker's Rules should be able to communicate all relevant information in the minimum amount of time, without paraphrasing or social formatting. Obviously, don't declare yourself to be operating by Crocker's Rules unless you have that kind of mental discipline.

Note that Crocker's Rules does not mean you can insult people; it means that other people don't have to worry about whether they are insulting you. Crocker's Rules are a discipline, not a privilege. Furthermore, taking advantage of Crocker's Rules does not imply reciprocity. How could it? Crocker's Rules are something you do for yourself, to maximize information received - not something you grit your teeth over and do as a favor.

"Crocker's Rules" are named after Lee Daniel Crocker.