Ecstasy

Thursday, 4 January 2007
Ecstasy
Mood: d'oh
Now Playing: 4am hard trance...
Topic: Drugs

Funny, I had a flashback yesterday (just before I started getting harangued by all those nasties), a flashback not to drugs but to the 4am music at some of the Brixton Academy nights I used to go to...

Now I've got to keep this posting quick as I'm dying to go out and get a fag to smoke. Honestly I've only had two spindliest rollies since ... I dunno... 4am, actually!!

Well, I just "listened again" (because I missed it the 1st time) to a Radio 4 prog called "E Generation at 40":— one can find it at www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/progs/listenagain.shtml and select E Generation...blah blah.

One piece of rubbish they highlighted was a slide of a brain so corroded by MDMA ("E") it had holes in it. Bloody great big ones. That was shown on the Oprah Winfrey Show. This the Radio 4 programme's toxicologists debunked as absolute nonsense, ("media misinformation").

They came up with some interesting seeming findings ("seeming" bc the research is ongoing as the course of people's lives). Any cognitive deficits the E does give you seem to be permanent. One expert was even talking of a permanent 3-point IQ-loss. They also hinted that boys might get more messed up mentally by cannabis while with girls it's E that's more likely to do their heads in, which was interesting because the two people I've met who had panic attacks (ongoing) after experiencing E were both female. They said females might be more susceptible to adverse affects from psychostimulants. Which I found intriguing bc it's a fairly well known phenomenon that girls can take far more cocaine than boys... and they don't want to stop. I don't know why.

Lastly I'll tell you of an MDMA experiment on rats. The rodents had Es popped into their mouths (actually I'm assuming this; I don't know how the methylenedioxymethylamphetamine was actually administered) but anyway, once the rats, fitted with electric sensors "came up" they just plodded round and round and round and round and round the perimeter of their containers... whereas normal rats pinged about everywhere and rats on speed did the same as normal but twice as much in the time...

Right I'm going to go because nicotine (not to mention a certain other substance) is calling me...!

See yer later,

Gleds




Posted by gledwood at 11:13 AM GMT
Updated: Thursday, 4 January 2007 11:28 AM GMT
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Thursday, 4 January 2007 - 1:23 PM GMT

Name: "anonymous"

Everybody everywhere, no matter what his station,
Has moments of deep loneliness and quiet desperation,
For this lost and lonely feeling is inherent in mankind,
It is just the spirit speaking as God tries again to find
An opening in the wall man builds against God's touch,
For he feels so sufficient that he doesn't need God much,
So he vainly goes on struggling to find some explanation
For these disturbing, lonely moods of inner isolation,
But the answer keeps eluding him, for in his finite mind,
He does not even recognise that he will never find
The reason for life's emptiness unless he learns to share
The problems and the burdens that surround him everywhere,
But when his eyes are opened and he really looks at others,
He begins to see not strangers but people who are brothers.
So open up your hurting heart and let God enter in,
He only wants to help you a new life to begin,
And every day's a good day to lose yourself in others,
And any time a good time to see mankind as brothers,
And this can only happen when you realize it's true
That everyone needs someone and that "someone" is you

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Wednesday, 10 January 2007 - 9:29 PM GMT

Name: gledwood
Home Page: http://gledwood.tripod.com

That's very well put, actually.