Kansas City drug users are still happy to play lab rat, the report adds. Despite new laws banning "bath salts," the trade in synthetic drugs has remained stable. Cops say the latest synthetic drug selling in convenience stores and online is the erotically named "Pump-It! Powder," which comes in a case whose cover depicts shadowy dancing figures, apparently at a rave. (Picture the logo for So You Think You Can Dance.) It’s advertised as an “enhanced plant vitamin” and a “50 state legal substitute for bath salts," but the packaging also says it’s “not for human consumption."
Of course, stern warnings have never stopped people from smoking, snorting or swallowing anything, and this powder is no different. Authorities aren’t sure what’s in Pump-It, but they believe the main ingredient is geranamine, which is similar in effect to amphetamines and ephedrine. What’s the high like? Kinda like meth’s.
It might not be a long-lasting high, though. Legislators here and nationwide don’t waste many chances these days to grab some easy headlines by moving fast to ban synthetic drugs. KCTV Channel 5 reported in December that a package of Pump-It was selling for $30 in metro convenience stores. With a little help from Jefferson City, shopkeepers could see a spike in profits just before manufacturers move on to the next questionable substance.
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LOL Geranamine? A company made that word up about ten years ago to sell dimethylpentylamine as "natural" and coming from geraniums. Fact is, that chemical and most of the others stimulants sold over the counter "to get high" are already in widespread use in bodybuilding supplements; just repackaged for a new market.
Honest to God, what do people have to look forward to anymore? The Grand American Dream is dying now, thanks to these damn politicians and damn corporate executives. It sure won't be around in the decades to come (much like Social Security.)
If someone wants to do drugs (hard or not) it's their own choice as a human being. If someone else disagrees, they don't have to do drugs! Until the early 20th century, people had enough freedom in this country to decide on their own what they would imbibe, as they could order heroin and cocaine by mail. That is how it should be again today.
If you think all your institutions of higher learning, your churches and your social programming are so strident, you have nothing to worry about. Your perfect, special children will never touch drugs and your white picket fences certainly won't have paint peeling off them in a few years...
The War on Drugs has been a massive failure, wasting trillions of dollars and killing thousands people, not mention ruining thousands upon thousands more. It suits the prison industrial complex, the police unions and the politicians' campaigns (and their wider aims of mass control) NOT the people!
The government has NO place telling people how to live their lives. If people decide they want to ruin themselves on heroin or some other hard drug, that is THEIR choice. The government has no place telling people how they can or cannot die!
Drug prohibition laws are in place because they control society and mold people into predictable little worker bees who are willing to use up the best years of their lives chasing after hollow goals like 'success' and 'having a family.' They are also a hand-out to the corporate interests who don't want people self-medicating or independently producing goods (hemp comes to mind here especially.)
Face it, if you allow them to lord over you and tell you how to enjoy yourselves in the best years of your life then you are doomed to waiting for those so-called golden years, which won't even exist in this country.
Can you even imagine America in the year 2030? I don't even want to be around to see it. Either a 1984 dystopia or a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
Enjoy it while you can ... it's better to burn out than it is to fade away!
It's sad that so many teenagers are getting high. If you don't try drugs then you can't become addicted. It's like everything else, cigarettes, alcohol, caffeine and even food. You can become addicted to almost anything but if there was one word of advice I could give to anyone concerning drugs it would be not to even try it for there are better things in life than getting high and spending a lot of money on drugs. Love, friendship, family and the money you spend on drugs instead of buying clothes a car etc., well you might as well smoke the money instead!
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