Today
I covered around 25 km (~ 15 miles for people with wrong system of measures=)) and there were lots of people around, they all were going somewhere. I was walking slowly so I can hear some parts of dialogues, calls, and other stuff.At some point, I decided to stop in some random micro park of Moscow and there were 3 ladies sitting on the bench not far from me. They were around 40-45 years old and discussing some young "child of the devil" or something like that. The guy was caught and admitted taking ecstasy.
Don't get me wrong, I won't try to advocate drugs now, but in that discussion I heard a crazy mixture of misunderstanding of the situation, crappy misleading information from mass-media andfall types of fallacies and fake preconceptions. As the result, it was decided that that poor guy is 146% sure to be drug-dependent for the rest of his short life. And yeah, trust them, his painful death is almost tomorrow =)
Oh well, it seems like I have to remove some crap from people's head, at least here on steemit
We open google, go to the very first link found:
We open it, we see this graph:
we keep scrolling...
and here we should read some annotations:
It’s important to keep in mind that the basis of reporting a death as “associated with MDMA” is not that it was caused by MDMA; rather that it was caused by drug use, and one of the drugs present was MDMA. This is a slippery distinction. For instance, if a person takes MDMA and drinks at a party, then, hours later, drives drunk and is killed in an accident, the death would be reported as MDMA-related.
Interesting, right?
The death rate for MDMA, assuming that there really were about 60 deaths directly caused by MDMA in 2000, would be roughly 2 in 100,000 users. The death rate from smoking, by contrast, is on the order of 400 per 100,000 users. Even alcohol, America’s official “it’s not really a drug” drug, nets about 50 deaths per 100,000 users each year:
Poor guy, if he starts smoking, he will die instantly =)
For those of you, who are banned in Google search, here's the link
https://thedea.org/mdma-risks-science-and-statistics-technical-faq/mdma-molly-ecstasy-use-and-death-rate-statistics/
And once again, I DO NOT ADVOCATE DRUGS! (Alcohol, heroin, tobacco and so on)
Song of the day =)
But it plays in my head with this intro:
I had a dream last night
You wanna hear that dream?
I SAID DO YOU WANNA HEAR THAT DREAM!?
I was drowning in a sea of liquor
And I washed up on a beach made of cocaine
The sky was made of LSD
AND EVERY TREE WAS MADE OF MARIJUANA!!
But the cops pulled me over
But they did now arrest me
Instead they sucked my dick
And it was so beautiful that God came down from heaven
He said to me,
Marilyn Manson, we will no longer spell the word 'God', G-O-D
I said, How do you wanna spell it, God?
He said,
Gimme a D
Gimme a R
Gimme a U
Gimme a G
Give me an S
And what does that spell...?
Video with this intro: