All posts tagged: Drugs

Canada: RCMP seizing cheap government-supplied safe drugs during arrests of drug dealers

The British Columbia government, a province in Canada, has decided that the best way to combat the drug crisis in that province was by supplying users with safe drugs through its ‘Safer Opioid Supply’ program. So how has that been working out? There have been numerous reports of how users are picking up their supply of safe drugs, such as hydromorphone, and selling or trading them to drug dealers for harder drugs on the sidewalk in front of pharmacies. The dealers in turn sell these so-called safe Opioids. Ads are even turning up on popular websites offering them for sale under the new slang name ‘dillies.’ The National Post recently reported that with a provincial election around the corner, some believe the RCMP is censoring drug busts if government-supplied safe drugs are part of the seizure. “After the British Columbia RCMP kept reporting that government-distributed “safer supply” opioids were showing up in drug busts, a leaked memo has emerged in which the province’s Mounties were allegedly told to step carefully around ‘hot button issues,‘” writes …

Canada: Pamphlets distributed at high school on how to safely use meth and cocaine

Parents of teenagers attending a high school in Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada, were outraged when pamphlets were handed out at a wellness fair on how students could safely take illicit drugs such as Meth and cocaine. This allegedly included a pamphlet on how to safely use a meth pipe. From the Lethbridge News Now: MEDICINE HAT, AB – Medicine Hat High School received backlash on Thursday, December 14, 2023, after students saw instructions for how to safely prepare illicit substances for consumption earlier this week. The instructions were of part of just one of several pamphlets distributed at a wellness fair on Tuesday. Pamphlets included “Safer Crystal Meth Smoking“, “Safe Crack Smoking” and “Safer Snorting” — outlining ways to smoke crystal meth and crack while outlining safe supplies to use. One parent asked her child what she had learned at school that day: “I want to know about her chemistry tests, not what she learned about smoking meth,” the mother said. To its credit, the school told the organization behind this to remove the pamphlets, …

Drugs are bad for you, right?

I’m unusual for my generation. When I went to high school, we had drugs and drug users. That was true in my school, and after I left, I learned that a uniformed police officer had been assigned to patrol the hallways when school was in. We knew, and our teachers warned us, that washrooms on one side of the school were controlled by drug gangs. We would walk to the other side of a huge campus, to use a washroom. For some reason, the drug dealers stayed away from the side where vocational courses were taught. When we moved around the school, we stayed away from some stairwells because that’s where the stoners slept. We didn’t like stepping over them. I didn’t think much about this, at the time, but now I wonder why we tolerated those problems. I have memories that scare me now. One of my best friends got into drugs and traveled to California. He damaged his brain, probably with LSD, and I heard something about him climbing a tree, and he …

Why was ‘sorcery,’ Biblegateway’s top searched term in 2021?

Biblegateway.com, a website used by tens of millions of people each year to search and study the Bible, just released its most popular searches over the past 12 months. It was a shocking to discover that the most searched Biblical words were terms related to sorcery, that registered a 193% increase over 2020. The remaining top three searches included: ‘Slow to anger’ that had a 169% increase, and ‘In my Father’s house are many rooms’ that saw a 140% increase over last year. Sorcery knocked out last year’s number one search, plagues and pestilence, which obviously spiked because of COVID. Searches for those terms actually saw a 71% decrease in 2021. But it is strange why sorcery would see such a dramatic increase this year. Biblegateway suggests that it may be due to sorcery being derived from the Greek word, pharmakeia, from which we get the English word pharmacy or drugs. In his article on Biblegateway, Johnathan Peters explains: The increase in sorceries is related to heightened interest in the Greek word pharmakeia which, according …

Religion in the Alley: What are you resisting?

A few years ago, I did something that was wrong, maybe. I will tell you the story, and you decide. We had moved to the place where we live now, and I like to go for walks, so I travelled through the new streets and alleys. In our alley, I met a young man, who always seemed to be in the same place, and he always spoke to me. This was strange because he seemed strong and healthy, and the economy was good. He should have been at work, unless he was a drug dealer, and he was working. In the language of the seventies, he was into something. I knew he was going to ask me for something, and I was ready. When he got too fake-friendly and aggressive, I told him how I found Jesus, and how that worked for me. That is the truth, I did find Jesus, and that does work for me. The other guy wanted to pull me into something, and I didn’t need his thing. The guy looked …

Study shows Marijuana usage can lead to delusional behavior and hearing voices

A study on Marijuana usage published in the Journal of Affective Disorders concluded there is a “significant link” between Cannabis usage and having delusions, aggressive behavior, hearing voices, hyperactivity and sleeping disorders — all symptoms of bipolar. In the study, lead researcher Dr. Steven Marwaha was particularly concerned about the impact the drug had on adolescents adding that “Cannabis is the most prevalent drug used by under-18s.”