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So, Where Are The Best Drug Blogs?

It’s about time we dug out some of the best drug blogs on t’internet. I ori­gin­ally started this blog because there wasn’t any­thing else decent to read, or what was avail­able was too obscure to be found easily, but there’s much more out there now.

I thought we could collect up a nice list of sug­ges­tions from you lot, maybe have a vote, then produce a list of the top drug blogs that everyone should be reading.

Let’s have some sug­ges­tions in the com­ments then!

(Oh, and the new misses is sup­posed to be writing summary of our hon­ey­moon in t’Dominican Republic, but it seems that she’s been spending all her time in the kitchen since we’ve been back. I’ll have a word…)

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13 Responses to So, Where Are The Best Drug Blogs?

This is the only drug blog I have ever read on a regular basis. Though I’m not sure how many almost purely drug based blogs there are out there…Haha, well I’m sure iv come across others (as I’m often doing Google research on new+old, fun sounding chem­icals :P) but none as level­headed and with as much good inform­a­tion. I found this blog during the whole Mephed­rone hoopla (you seemed to be one of the few sane people writing about the stuff at the time) but kept coming back. Gen­er­ally though, when I’m doing research, I go to Erowid, and often find myself at the Blue­light forums and Drugs-​​forum for newer stuff.

In America we have a well-​​documented but little dis­cussed tra­di­tion of dis­torting and ignoring the empir­ic­ally sup­ported facts about drugs and addic­tion. Our responses are often vis­ceral and impulsive. Some­times the dis­tor­tion is used to support the polit­ical agenda of the moment. Mostly these agenda’s are dir­ected at ste­reo­typing, mar­gin­al­izing and sub­verting minority com­munities that are per­ceived, without evid­ence, a threat to society. We can see this agenda his­tor­ic­ally with the Opium and the Chinese, Heroin and The Black Amer­ican, Marijuana and The Mexican.

One of the most dam­aging por­trayals of a group occurred rel­at­ively recently when the “crack baby” epi­demic was man­u­fac­tured during the 1980’s. Recent research has proved the “crack baby” epi­demic never occurred and was whole­sale non­sense. It did prove to a powerful polit­ical tool to promote the Reagan era “war on drugs” cam­paign. The medias wild por­trayal of crack addicted mothers made them appear as sub-​​human creatures lurking in the night. Who can forget the unnerving images of young, selfish, drug addicted mothers, pois­oning unborn fath­er­less chil­dren and setting that child on a life tra­jectory starting with drug with­drawal and chron­ic­ally plagued with certain brain damage for life. It ste­reo­typed the young black unmar­ried inner city woman. What we missed during that time was there is no doubt thou­sands of sub­urban white women used powered cocaine during preg­nancy in the 80’s and I’ve never heard any­thing refer­ring to “coke babies.” This por­trayal of the inner city crack whore mother helped fuel legis­la­tion changes for pos­ses­sion of crack cocaine, which was widely sold in inner-​​city, pre­dom­in­antly black neigh­bor­hoods, although both forms are identic­ally meta­bol­ized by the body and have the same phar­ma­co­lo­gical effects. In 1986, at the height of elec­tion season and with vir­tu­ally no study or review, Con­gress passed the Anti-​​Drug Abuse Act of 1986. It created man­datory minimum sen­tences for drug traf­ficking crimes, including the espe­cially harsh 100-​​to-​​1 crack-​​powder dis­parity. I know it might seem incom­pre­hens­ible, but I’d spec­u­late that a couple of members of the US Senate and House of Rep­res­ent­at­ives may pos­sibly had used powdered cocaine during the 80’s. It took 24 years for the federal gov­ern­ment to come to their senses and pass the Fair Sen­ten­cing Act, which went in to effect in August 2010. That law reduces the dif­fer­ence between sen­tences for crimes com­mitted by crack cocaine and powder cocaine users.