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With society favouring an all-out assault on the sweaty-toothed monster of (some) drugs, sensible and practical information on drugs can be reasonably hard to come by. Fortunately, most four-four anarcho-cyberheads wouldn't be publishing on the web were it not for the occasional use of an illicit stimulant and hence the web is powdered to the gums with a glut of information resources. Study Safely, created by London's Drug Action Teams, hits the apparently vulnerable "target demographic" of the nation's students, offering reasonably sound information and advice, dressed up in a smothering of 90s design. Aside from presenting detailed high and lows on everything from opiates to ketamine, the site also promotes some useful first aid advice and tells you what to expect in the sex department whilst your brain is otherwise occupied. Its position is most definitely rooted in prevention rather than hectoring discouragement, and for that it should certainly be applauded. The Brixton Drugs Project provides some of the most detailed substance data you are ever likely to find - so much so that the reams of text can be bewildering for those of a low attention span. There's an interesting "downloadable tutorial" that covers all the bases of the effects on pregnancy, particularly for habitual users of cocaine, however their baffling "experiments" with Shockwave games are best given a wide berth. Perhaps it requires a certain amount of smoking before game play. Hyperreal, created by a team of around one hundred volunteers, is nothing short of a drugs library, stocked with book reviews and features (particularly on E-creator, Sasha Shulgin) in an excellent cross-section of styles. Their "Drug Price" resource allows the user to compare street prices the world over and to submit details of their own local pricing policy. Incidentally, one tablet of ecstasy in Montreal will set you back around 23 quid - do they know something we don't? Nicholas Saunders' Ecstasy site doesn't mess words and assumes from the outset that if people are going to take drugs then they'll want to know exactly what they are getting for their money. Each month, the site tests tablets that are "doing the rounds" and publishes their MDMA content. Without wishing for one second to advocate ecstasy use, the site has to be encouraged if at least helps users to avoid dropping garbage down their necks. By way of example, Saunders' October tests found that the Triangle X brand clocked in at around 30% MDMA whilst the hipper-than-thou Adidas tab was found to contain nothing but amphetamine and trace caffeine. With that in mind, it's probably more worthwhile popping down to Tescos and necking a jar of Gold Blend. Thanks to web sites such as these, the war on (some) drugs has rarely enjoyed a higher profile, helped - perversely - by the Independent on Sunday's decriminalisation bandwagon and a host of celebrities prising themselves out of smoke-filled closets. In saying that, the half million "weekender" Ecstasy users are not going to find themselves legitimised in any of our lifetimes. In the meantime, the least we can all do is to try to encourage a rational and intelligent debate, even when the tabloid-esque "experts" are the only people around us that seem to be losing their heads. [sb.nov97]
ABBIE HOFFMAN is renowned as a "radical organiser" and anarchist prankster; perhaps his greatest moment being the publication the best selling pranks manual "Steal This Book". Here we publish one of his finer pranks. "There was a point where we announced to the press that if they fucked with us, we were going to put LSD in the drinking water. I can guarantee that if you are Deputy Mayor in the town, and we've got some negotiations to do...(like we don't want them to dig up the land or poison the river)...when we negotiate, they will not be able to tell if I'm serious, kidding, in it for the money, or a stoned fucking raving lunatic. So at this point if I say "We're going to put LSD in the drinking water," then they start blinking like crazy because they know they've got guns, but you might be crazy and you've got the acid. They had 6,000 National Guard guarding the reservoirs - pictures in papers and on TV. A couple of days go by and they're beating the shit out of people and we're negotiating with Deputy Mayor behind the scenes and I said, "To show you my good faith, I'll tell that you can take all your soldiers away, because it's chemically impossible to put LSD in the water supply - it doesn't dissolve that easily". He says, "I know, but we can't take our chances." The myth had gone beyond reality. Their scientists were telling them we couldn't do it ... but maybe I was lying and we had better scientists! So that's how powerful magic is - it goes beyond reality." N.B. The above prank is taken from "Re/Search 11 : Pranks!" and is intended for entertainment & humour purposes only. Neither Re/Search Publications or Thee Data Base will assume responsibility for the use or misuse of the information on these pages. Ho fucking hum. Tedious, huh?
Experience rampant drug induced hysteria in previously sane adults ...An article from thee data base vaults. |
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THE HYPERREAL ARCHIVE
DR TIMOTHY LEARY
SHULGIN'S PSYCHEDELIC PUBLICATION
ECSTACY.org
CREW 2000
THE CAMPAIGN TO LEGALISE CANNABIS
AMPHETAMINE CHEWING GUM
A MONTH OF APOCALYPSE
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