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Yow Min Lye

A perfect reason not to do drugs at all.

Baron

Yow Min Lye @ 7.22.

depends which way one slices it (no pun intended), if drugs were legal would any supplier dare diluting the stuff with levamisole, facing the wrath of ealth&safety?

normanc

I remember a batch of heroin with this problem surfaced in the UK a few years ago (10 or so).

Killed a few people in Glasgow. Talk at the time was that the Taliban was contaminating drugs as a retaliation against the invasion of Afghanistan.

Occam's razor says the reason is because drug dealers are an unregulated industry (worth billions) who will do anything to turn a profit.

We either take away the market (Solyent Green?) or take away the motive to profit.

Jeremy

But can the story be trusted? Might it not be alarmist propaganda placed in the newspaper by the authorities? Why would a "drug traditionally used to deworm livestock" necessarely eat human flesh? To reiterate...these are questions.

My understanding is that horse tranquillizers are occasionally used as recreational drugs by the human population of Britain. But then, the British always have been a bit sentimental when it comes to animals. Anything that's good enough for the horse must be good enough for them, too.

A J Scott

I realise it is dreadful to even hint at it - but if these drug takers kill themselves, why should we, taking the line that they choose to do it - worry?
Much cheaper than the failed attempts to "cure", "wean them off", rehab centres, repeated hospital stays, costs of police, social services etc.
But then, I see it as a matter to be looked at in simple Darwinian terms. Not much different from the clowns you can see on the Darwin Awards.

Fergus Pickering

Horse tranquillisers are regularly used by young people, who often die - because they are not horses, presumably. How d I know this? My daughters told me.