5 July 2004

Submitted by eve on Mon, 07/05/2004 - 1:04am. Funny

"No, the other day, I was in the elevator, and I look down, and there's a syringe. With a cap on it. Like, somebody just dropped a syringe! 'Too many syringes, just dropped one.'"
"Ew, God, how sketch. That's not even ghetto. That's pure sketch. Where the hell were you?"
"...In my apartment building."
"I'm sure it was a diabetic."
--Two men at Bar Rouge

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Yahoo888

Posted by bratan888 on Wed, 03/14/2007 - 2:11am.

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Legalize it.

Posted by Mike on Sat, 08/21/2004 - 11:12am.

Legalize everything! Not that I'm dying to try every drug known to man or anything-- I'm a lightweight who almost became the world's first marijuana overdose fatality-- but it's obvious that the War on Drugs isn't working. Instead of using laws to (ineffectively) penalize users, why not try to regulate the market and see how that works? Somebody go to Amsterdam and take some copious notes already! Sheesh!

There, I said it. What's a front page without a pointless argument? ;^)

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Huh?

Posted by Desert Fox on Sun, 08/22/2004 - 2:32pm.

Marijuana overdose? Reminds me of kind of dumb joke.

Q: What's the lethal dose of marijuana?
A: Around 100 pounds; but only if it's dropped on your head.

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Hmm.

Posted by Saint on Thu, 08/19/2004 - 11:07am.

You know, thinking about it, the only place I've ever seen a syringe (outside of a hospital or at the vet) was hanging out of a guy's foot at a jackshack in Albuquerque. Since he was throwing trash cans around and knocked out two of the cops when they arrived, I'm thinking not heroin. *shrug* Just thought I'd share.

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Posted by Matt on Thu, 08/19/2004 - 11:53am.

PCP, then? Methamphetamine? Some kind of customized cocktail, perhaps?

I've heard some weird, weird stories about people--fairly normal people--who try PCP.

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Posted by Matt on Thu, 08/19/2004 - 3:37am.

Consolation isn't always a prize.

Heroin is everywhere in The Bay Area. Get used to it.

Well, that, and panhandlers. If you don't have panhandlers, chances are 9 out of 10 that your neighbors are snotty and delusional, a la Marin County and Orinda.

I'm just sayin'.

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Actually

Posted by hypoxic on Thu, 08/19/2004 - 9:04am.

the South bay and peninsula don't have to many panhandlers. It seems like they cluster in San Francisco and the east bay.

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Safety-conscious heroin addicts?

Posted by Mike on Thu, 08/19/2004 - 7:36am.

Since the cap was on it, maybe it really was something a diabetic dropped? I can't imagine a heroin addict worrying about keeping the syringe capped or ditching a needle just because it fell on the dirty ground.

Then again, I can't imagine what would lead a person to try heroin in the first place. Ugh, needles...

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Yes, Safety Conscious!

Posted by glasswave on Thu, 09/16/2004 - 10:33am.

From a heroin user who is extremely health and safety conscious, yes, I'm very careful about my needles. I cap each one, I use it once and then exchange it at the local needle exchange. So... yes, there are smart drug users out there. Just because we break the law doesn't mean we don't want to stay alive.

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I stand corrected then.

Posted by Mike on Fri, 09/17/2004 - 9:36am.

(*shrug*) Makes sense. It's not like smokers are full-on suicidal or all sleep with lit butts in their mouths or something. I suppose the whole deal is a bit more nuanced than I'd thought. Heh, live and learn. Minimizing the risks to others is good enough for me.

I suppose legalizing drug use would take a lot of the dangers out of heroin use anyway (impurities, accidental overdoses, etc.) I heard somewhere that heroin was originally put forth as a less dangerous alternative to opium. I also heard that methadone, the new "less dangerous" alternative, is more addictive than heroin. Is that true?

Um, also, if you don't mind, could you tell us why you started using heroin in the first place? (Heh, we can't pass up the chance to ask questions now can we?)

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Hee

Posted by Apple on Fri, 09/17/2004 - 2:25pm.

"I stand corrected then."

Should I be concerned at the mental image of Mike wearing only White Out briefs??? *G*

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Uhm...

Posted by Kris the Girl on Thu, 09/16/2004 - 12:25pm.

I don't know if you can be an "extremely health conscious" heroin addict. It's kind of an oxymoron. Safety conscious, I'll give you, but health? eh. That's a pretty hard sell.

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Posted by copperhead on Thu, 09/16/2004 - 8:12pm.

maybe 'health conscious' came after 'heroin addict.' not like you can just say one day, hey i think i won't be addicted anymore, cuz it's no damn good for me. all right, so you can, daily, but it wouldn't be called addiction if it was that easy.

i went to war for my country and all i got was this lousy stump.

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Exactly

Posted by Penny on Thu, 08/19/2004 - 7:42am.

That's exactly what I was thinking, Mike.
My husband is a diabetic and he's always careful to cap his syringes. Also, yes, sometimes there are just so many (if we're traveling) that I'm certain they get dropped. I have to keep some of his things in by purse so that they're readily available and I can guarantee droppage1

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Ummm...

Posted by ParU on Thu, 08/19/2004 - 6:34pm.

There are other medical conditions that require daily injections - so I'd go along with Penny and Mike - I can't imagine an addict being careful enough to cap his needle, but careless enough to drop it.
It's Amino world without Chemists

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Posted by Matt on Thu, 08/19/2004 - 9:20pm.

There's some guy in Berkeley running a needle exchange program out of a truck. It's possible--possible--that he or the person to whom he was handing it dropped said unused (probably unused) needle.

But I'm one to go the heroin route anyway. Trainspotting, Requiem For A Dream, Pulp Fiction... it's just all so much craziness.

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