Seven mistakes with a selected piece of sloppy propaganda and "drug education"

I normally try to remain unpolitical when I am trying to provide an entertaining setting such as this, but I wanted to take a break for a minute and educate you on some of the misinformation that is responsible for much of the closed-mindedness that we see in the world today.

From http://www.rememberingadam.org:
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Remembering ADAM Incorporated has been changing lives and bringing hope to communities since 1998. Through prevention education programs, Remembering ADAM carries out its mission to increase awareness of the destructive outcomes of substance abuse.
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The person who created this website is basically going on a crusade against all drugs due to the fact that a loved one (Adam) died of a heroin overdose. I sympathize with anybody who loses a loved one due to an overdose. However, I must disagree with the reaction that was put forth in response. If your brother was killed by a man from China, does this mean that it is right to hate all Chinese people?

Now with this point aside, I will show you what the real problem is here. Documents and writings have been created by companies such as these, in order to "inform" the general public about what a drug is and what it will do. Now I love being educated about things, as long as the one who is doing the teaching is not BIASED, and is not INCORRECT. Education needs to be for the purpose of learning, NOT to further an agenda. If you want to be educated on a drug, I recommend going to http://www.erowid.org for all your unbiased information.

Now here is the article from RememberingAdam that comes into question. By the way, there are no references or sources cited in this article. Big red flag. Oh wait, on a second look, you can see in very small print that this article was "Provided by the Pennsylvania office of Attorney General". Well here is the smoking gun that the government is feeding the masses crap in order to maintain the status quo.

http://www.rememberingadam.org/drug_info/LSD.pdf

Claim 1: The chief ingredients in LSD amplify the users senses by up to 1000 times.

Correction: Where in the hell did they get the number 1000 from? There is absolutely no scientific data that suggests that you can measure how many "times" the senses can be amplified. Oh, perhaps if you asked a high-school freshman what LSD was, that is a good indication of what they might tell you.

Claim 2: Recently, chemists or "cooks" have developed LSD recipes that eliminate the use of strychnine as a cutting agent.

Correction: Strychnine has never been part of any "recipe". The government wants you to think that you are taking rat poison in order to scare you from taking this. Why does my government have to blatantly lie to the people? I thought this was America.

Source: Taken from http://www.erowid.org/chemicals/lsd/lsd_myth5.shtml
"The observation of strychnine as being present in any street drug, as a by-product, or a contaminant, or an impurity has never been documented. It is a natural plant product, as are the ergots which are used in the synthesis of LSD. But they come from totally unrelated plants; there has never been a report of strychnine and an ergot alkaloid co-existing in a single species. So if the two materials are together in a drug sample, it could only be by the hand of man. I have personally looked a large number of illicit street offerings and have never detected the presence of strychnine. The few times that I have indeed found it present, have been in legal exhibits where it usually occurred in admixture with brucine (also from the plant Strychnos nux-vomica) in criminal cases involving attempted or successful poisoning.

Claim 3: The distributor can place individual drops directly on the user's eye or on the user's tongue

Correction: Are you ****ing kidding me? Nobody is going to want somebody to drop liquid acid onto your eye. The chemicals that are in that stuff will burn the hell out of your eye, putting you into a bad mood, and then when the trip starts you are going to be in for a world of hurt.
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Claim 4: LSD can be found at gyms, nightclubs, "RAVE" parties and clubs.

Correction: Has anyone actually ever believed that they could go down to the local workout shop and find some LSD? Seriously, now.

Claim 5: Methods of Use -- LSD can be absorbed in any part of the skin.

Correction: While this is true, the efficiency of doing such is low and it would be a waste of money. This makes this claim quite misleading, as I would not call skin absorption a method of use.
Edit: Okay, I just realized that there are people out there that do massive doses of this stuff by absorbing crystal LSD through their skin (thumb). Not very common though. Articles like these don't really make the distinction between the ritualized "thumbprinting" and the 16-year-old kid who wants to get high.

Claim 6: Street Prices -- "Sheets" (100 dosage units) of paper LSD sell for $80 to $400; "books" (1000 dosage units) sell for $800 to $6000

Correction: I am not going to speculate on what the actual prices are, but logic tells me that if $4 for a unit is the maximum at 100 units, then the maximum for 1000 should be EQUAL or LESSER than $4 a unit. Why is it a maximum of $6 for a unit at 1000?

Claim 7: Coma and death are major side effects of LSD.

Correction: You would need to take many thousands of doses to have a chance of this happening, and even still, death is rare. However, the government doesn't have a problem with leaving this little piece of information out. They would like you to believe that it is a deadly poison that does everything negative and nothing positive except give you heightened senses.

In conclusion, these are the types of documents that are used to "teach" our children right from wrong. I am making an effort to teach you that THIS is wrong, and I am giving you facts to back this up. You make the call.