Comments on: Willie Nelson’s ‘Narcotic’ Shrooms

By: sally luo

sally luo — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:09:23 +0000

Wow, Get over it he is the best singer ever, he is a star, and a ledgend to america.

By: Cannabis

Cannabis — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 05:18:44 +0000

war on drugs will never end as long as their are still human being using it and discovcering new ones!!

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 04:13:00 +0000

I was talking to the president of Virginia NORML yesterday, and he had an interesting thing to say about the America’s drug problem.

The war on drugs isn’t about drugs. It’s about law enforcement and to a greater extent, the federal government having the mentality of “Finishing what you started”. Everything (good and bad) that we know about illegal drugs doesn’t factor in.

_Winning_ this “war” is.

By: weed

weed — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 08:01:57 +0000

Well it is at least good to hear that willie got off with white collar treatment…although the fact that he was harassed is a bit ridiculous in my opinion. Great blog, very informative…this one is definitely going into the bookmarks!

By: CandyFlipy

CandyFlipy — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 05:23:13 +0000

you had some good shit to type but if theres no war on drugs theirs less of a market for the littel man trying to farm a liveing so i have mixed feelings about the main subject.
most of the things you typed i agree with and thanks for the info on that shroom looks interesting and fun.

By: little matty

little matty — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 19:29:01 +0000

In a Conan Obrien monologue only pot was mentioned. Omitting the mention of the shrooms, or calling them narcotic seems to a conscious effort to obscure the nature of the drugs and the users intent. There seems to be a fear driven knee jerk character assassination culture operating in the US. Maybe it has always been that way. But with the war and the current junta itseems worse. People who disagree with the ruling forces need to pool resources and take over geography to reestablish american freedoms. I propose Minnesota.

By: RU Sirius

RU Sirius — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 22:54:48 +0000

A freak out isn’t the same thing as an overdose. An overdose is physiological.

By: Seth Brundle

Seth Brundle — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 21:20:43 +0000

I wouldnt put alcohol in the same category as, say, ghb.

The alcohol consumer is aware of their ingestion and its consequences, and in most cases can plan their ingestion and behavior to insure a reasonable degree of safety. Date rape arises from poor choices with a known variable.

Even an intelligent consciencous, tea-totalling soccer mom can get date raped with ghb without any knowledge, foreshadowing, or preventative action.

That difference is extremely significant and should in no way be diluted by comparing it to alcohol.

Also, you can certainly overdose on LSD to the point where you become suicidal (I have), and I also know someone in a mental ward who overdosed on LSD 12 years ago and still believes he is a teapot.

Don’t counter bad information with more bad information, someone could hurt themselves. I would NEVER tell ANYONE it is impossible to overdose on LSD. That is simply irresponsible.

By: daksya

daksya — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 21:05:05 +0000

Dan, while I agree that a lethal THC overdose is unlikely, most of the LD50 studies are conducted on adult animals. We also know that adolescent-onset marijuana use is linked to psychosis later on (among certain segments of the population) but adult-onset isn't; meaning that as the brain doesn't mature till the early 20s, generalizations about marijuana can't be applied to toddlers. Of course, this applies to the scaremongers, as well.

By: rekzkarz.com

rekzkarz.com — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 20:57:52 +0000

Interesting article!

Poor Willie. Nailed again — and to think he was trying to legalize stuff when this started — and now he’s in trouble again.

Whether or not it was ‘narcotics’ is not a question of logical definition, but it’s just another whacked ‘drug law’ definition.

Going after the drug war insanity in the USA by using logic makes sense to a degree, but at some point we all have to admit this is INSANITY and then argue the way society does w/insane people:
Use numbers, gang up, go for the tackle, and administer a sedative.

Clearly, the US Govt is on drugs — I mean metaphorically and also ‘riding the black market trading profits’ to fuel secret groups & not-so-secret coups, CIA teams, and all that.

If you figured it out, think again — it’s not a Drug War that makes sense in any logical way EXCEPT “who’s profiting and who’s suffering”?

Profiteers = alcohol & tobacco co’s (ie wealthy people & corps), US medicine research (ie big biz), police and prison systems, and govt (b/c easier to control people w/’you’ve got drugs!’ excuse).

Suffering = average to poor Americans who buy dope in small volumes on the street, occasional celebrities who get nailed doing something ‘dumb’ on a binge, S. American farmers can’t legally market a high demand exportable crop (free market? Where’s that?), and one stupid President who got caught (but his Daddy got him off the rap).

The Drug War is a farce, almost as bad as the supposed “War on Terrorists” where the terrorists are invisible — but it’s a front that allows the USA to go and crush non-threatening countries and say it’s actions were warranted.

It’s all 1984 DoubleThink. So of course Mushrooms and Marijuana (the natural drugs) are illegal, and of course Alcohol and Tobacco (both modified and known to be addictive) are legal. Doesn’t it make sense to you? You better figure out a way to swallow THAT pill, or it’s off to the Ministry of Love for you (– and that’d be called Guantanamo).

Thanks RU for the article!

REkzkaRZ.com

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 20:51:55 +0000

This reminds me of something I ran across today while reading about Greenades. In an article published on prweb.com they say:

“Most experts agree that there is enough THC (the active chemical in marijuana) in one gram of high grade marijuana to produce a lethal overdose that could result in death if swallowed by a toddler.”

I had never heard of a lethal dose of marijuana. Wikipedia agrees that “It is generally considered to be impossible to achieve a lethal overdose by smoking cannabis”. Just more media trying to scare us about the welfare of our children.

By: Natasha Vita-More

Natasha Vita-More — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 19:18:50 +0000

A week ago I was driving through the Texas hill country on the way to a friend of ours lakeside house. In the middle of a vast open space of foliage was a small Mexican hut and a sign that read “Willie eats here.” I wonder what they were serving! Might have stopped if …

Thanks RU for another dazzling article!

By: gregoryp(tm)

gregoryp(tm) — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 19:17:59 +0000

Missed the story that Willie got busted for ’shrooms. Could you fill in the details for those of us who somehow Missed that One between Burning Man haze and post-9-11 torpor?

My dad’s a DC attorney and *everything* is a narcotic in his world. sigh…

thanks for the forward
gregoryp(tm)

By: Chandira

Chandira — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 18:51:46 +0000

Great article! Definite food for thought. Thanks for the tip off on the new blog R U! :-)

You mean I’m not the only one who gets bored stupid by the Grateful Dead? Wow. Never heard that before, I thought I was unique. That’s sacrilege in my household. But then, I only have very limited experience of hallucinogens. One mushroom trip in my early 20’s.

WIll be stopping by regularly.