Here's a good reason for legalizing and regulating drugs

So we can go after drug dealers who put LEAD in their product to increase sales weight:

The cases, documented in an article in the current issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, involve 29 young adults, ages 16 to 33, who were hospitalized in Leipzig, Germany, with lead poisoning during a period of several months.
While doctors were initially baffled by the rash of poisonings, they eventually determined that all had smoked marijuana that had been tainted with small lead particles.

That's some heavy shit, man.

UPDATE: Here's the NEJM article with pictures of one of the tainted bags of weed.

» more at: www.nytimes.com

Posted By NaFun at 2008-04-10 09:58:36 permalink | comments

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omgoleus : 2008-04-13 00:14:00

That really is fucked. That trick with licking your finger isn't going to tell you anything for sure. Depends on particle size, etc.

roaldgold. : 2008-04-10 13:43:21

A recent issue of WeedWorld mentioned this. Apparently to test for lead you lick your finger, lightly press on a bud, then taste. A gritty or sandy taste means it's tainted.

zupakomputer. : 2008-04-10 13:35:15

Anyone that'd taint things like that, they are not fit to be handling such a product.

What should be illegal, is the spiritually unclean (whether they were putting it in to increase profits, or to deliberately poison users) being able to even be anywhere near ganj, the ganj should be entirely legal.

(I didn't view the pdf with the photos so I can't tell how large the metal bits were.....even so, anyone unscrupulous like that shouldn't be allowed anywhere near pot or anything else that's ingested, or worn.)

Carrie. : 2008-04-10 12:53:53

While I agree that dealers who would do this are 'fuct', having looked at the pictures I must say that if you choose to *smoke* the pieces of METAL in your baggie you might just qualify for a Darwin award.

lumpy hogg. : 2008-04-10 12:29:30

Good reason to grow your own, roll your own, smoke your own grass.

Gastronomicon. : 2008-04-10 12:23:44

Hey pot dealers: Get the lead out!

Fuckers.

galeros. : 2008-04-10 11:33:17

that's fuct!

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