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Lilyhoney Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-29-05 01:12 PM
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When Is It Best To Take Crack Cocaine?

When Is It Best To Take Crack Cocaine?

As a rule of thumb, it is profoundly unwise to take crack-cocaine.

There is perhaps a single predictable time of life when taking crack-cocaine is sensible, harmless and both emotionally and intellectually satisfying. Indeed, for such an occasion it may be commended. Certain estimable English doctors were once in the habit of administering to terminally-ill cancer patients an elixir known as the "Brompton cocktail". This was a judiciously-blended mixture of cocaine, heroin and alcohol. The results were gratifying not just to the recipient. Relatives of the stricken patient were pleased, too, at the new-found look of spiritual peace and happiness suffusing the features of a loved one as (s)he prepared to meet his or her Maker.

Drawing life to a close with a transcendentally orgasmic bang, and not a pathetic and god-forsaken whimper, can turn dying into the culmination of one's existence rather than its present messy and protracted anti-climax.

There is another good reason to finish life on a high note. In a predominantly secular society, adopting a hedonistic death-style is much more responsible from an ethical utilitarian perspective. For it promises to spare friends and relations the miseries of vicarious suffering and distress they are liable to undergo at present as they witness one's decline.

A few generations hence, the elimination of primitive evolutionary holdovers such as the ageing process and suffering will make the hedonistic death advocated here redundant. In the meanwhile, one is conceived in pleasure and may reasonably hope to die in it.

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texpatriot2004 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-29-05 01:13 PM
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1. When you are the daughter or niece of a Bush? n/t
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sarcasmo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-29-05 01:13 PM
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2. When you are the President and your poll #'s are below 40 percent.
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bonito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-29-05 01:21 PM
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3. We take pain medication
For pain dont we, why not.
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TallahasseeGrannie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-29-05 01:26 PM
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4. I hear heroin is amazing.
Isn't crack a stimulant? Not sure I want to be stimulated on the way out.
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Lilyhoney Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-29-05 01:29 PM
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5. I have never used heroine
but if I only had a few weeks to live, I think I would have to try some.
And every other drug I never tried.


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TallahasseeGrannie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-29-05 01:54 PM
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10. I've already decided if I ever find out I'm terminally ill
I'm going up in a balloon. I'm afraid of heights, so this is a big deal. I think I'll take a hookah with me.
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SteppingRazor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-03-05 10:35 AM
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18. I'd have to try them all too...
Unfortunately, for me, that pretty much amounts to crack and heroin. Everything else is water under the bridge :evilgrin:
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PerpetualWinter Donating Member (139 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-11-05 06:13 PM
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21. My old man is the same way...
I've known for a long time the insane amounts of drugs both my parents did back in the day. My father though, well, lets just say Hawaii and San Diego in the mid-70's was a wild time. He told me that he never did crack or heroin. He said he would have tried heroin, but only in controlled circumstances. He shot up a coke concoction once under those circumstances: in his house with his friends one of which was a paramedic, fresh sterile needles from the package, etc.

Personally I have zero desire to do crack even if I only have a week to live. I've smelt that shit before and it was one of the most vile things I've smelt. The thought of inhaling it is definitely a no.
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NorCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-29-05 01:35 PM
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6. Ecstacy is supposed to be better for cancer patients
and it's generally safer too. They used to use MDMA back in the day for pyschotherapy and terminal cancer patients, and then the FDA found out people were taking it for fun too, so they made it illegal.

In fact, just about every drug we have in our society has a better alternative in the narcotics market, they're just TOO good for people to use safely, so the government must protect us from ourselves, or something like that.
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Lilyhoney Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-29-05 02:52 PM
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15. MDMA is still used in psycho therapy
in other countries, prescribed in low doses.

I would be looking for some if I were dying.
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SteppingRazor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-03-05 10:34 AM
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17. Depends how much pain, I think...
Ecstasy's a bump in the road compared to the Everest of Heroin. It doesn't do a whole lot for pain, so much as it alters one's state of mind.

If I was terminally ill and in pain, it'd be opiates for me all the way.
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orwell Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-29-05 01:38 PM
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7. Right before...
...your State of the Union Address where you designate the Axis of Evil.
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Monkey see Monkey Do Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-29-05 01:40 PM
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8. Reminds me of Timothy Leary's final days
I fully plan on doing my drug experimentation when I'm on my last legs.
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az chela Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-29-05 02:06 PM
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13. Weird
I was just telling my friend several days ago about Tim's last book,Design for dying,and told her thats what I want to do if I am really dying.
It is such a good book and as He was always my hero,I recommend it to anyone who is termilally ill or wants the knowledge before they get that way
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ShaneGR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-29-05 01:46 PM
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9. Had major surgery on my ankle a few years back....
When I awoke, completely and utterly relaxed, out of it, and without a care in the world (Plus really bad cottonmouth) I was told that I'd been administered some morphine.

So, if you want to talk about a drug to administer to sick and ailing people on the verge of death, talk about one that is LEGAL to administer.

Using sickness and pain as a platform for the legalization of crack cocaine is pretty ridiculous IMO, in fact, it blurs the line between crack cocaine and marijuana (Which deserves real attention as a medical alternative).
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Lilyhoney Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-29-05 02:48 PM
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14. I never said anything about legalization of crack cocaine.
Some people claim to have a god like experience on heroine. That is the experience I would be looking for.





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imperialismispasse Donating Member (836 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-29-05 02:02 PM
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11. Right before you go on the air for the EIB network.
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zbdent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-29-05 02:05 PM
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12. Usually AFTER a press conference, not before
It causes you to fumble up your answers to unscripted questions . . . Luckily, you usually try to have your photo-ops in front of friendly, ordered-to-smile crowds . . .
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Dez Donating Member (826 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-29-05 10:51 PM
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16. Don't do crack
or other drugs, they're bad for you.
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Gnostic Donating Member (269 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-05 12:56 AM
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19. I have always told
Everyone I know that if I am ever in the position of certain death, and my "quality of life" stops justifying continued existence, I want the strongest, biggest rock that can be found of ANYTHING and strapped into my death-bed for my last ride to Mars.
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maxsolomon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-10-05 11:53 AM
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20. A friend of mine did it in a crack house in NYC
in the 80's.

he was there on a co-op quarter during architecture school.

he knew where it was, but waited until the night before he was leaving NYC. he said he was really really glad he did, because he woudl have gone back.
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