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bloodsheen said:
Listen, I think a lot of you guys are a little undereducated as to what scheduling means. It isn't just about danger, its also about being medically useful. Heroin has no medical use for the exact reason that it becomes morphine in the body: why use the analog when you can go straight to the source? And since nobody is allowed to prescribe a plant to treat an illness, marijuana is considered to have no use while Marinol is allowed.

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bloodsheen said:
But aren't Pro-drugs used b/c the actual active drug is destroyed before its useful or it slows its absorption? And don't forget that the FDA hasn't been around all that long, the issue of making a drug Schedule 1 than people wanting to keep studying it hasn't come up until recently (i.e. maintenance heroin, shrooms for cluster headaches, etc). The whole system is a bunch of stupid crap, it needs to be revised, but nobody wants to do the revising

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LadyLittleZeppelin said:
Jarrod Wyatt, a 26-year-old mixed martial arts fighter, is accused of brutally murdering his 21-year-old friend, Taylor Powell. According to the Times-Standard, prosecutors claim the pair took mushrooms along with two other friends in late March. The paper reports that witnesses say Powell and Wyatt "became preoccupied with the idea that a tidal wave was coming, that the end of the world was upon them and that a struggle between God and the devil was taking place."

When police arrived, they found Wyatt naked and covered in dried blood. According to an officer at the scene, Wyatt admitted to cutting out his victim's tongue and heart. Powell's corpse included an 18-inch incision on his chest, and Wyatt allegedly said he cooked the 21-year-old's heart in a wood stove to "stop the devil."

The accused killer faces murder charges in Del Norte County (Calif.) Superior Court. The Times-Standard has additional details on the charges.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/01/jarrod-wyatt-murder-detai_n_596263.html

This is somewhat off topic but I feel like it's important to remind you guys that stories like this are why shrooms are illegal, and other various drugs.  You can't deny that people flip out and kill each other from time to time. My friend almost  stuck her blowdryer in running water when we were tripping. People do stupid crap on drugs they can not handle. That is why drugs are illegal.

For the record I didn't trip with her again.

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