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My conspiracy theory based on absolutely nothing is this is a way for the government to get everyone off all drugs. Create enough doubt in everyone’s mind that
by bergenty 4y ago
My conspiracy theory based on absolutely nothing is this is a way for the government to get everyone off all drugs. Create enough doubt in everyone’s mind that they stop doing it. Worked on me, I do coke about once a year but not any more, there’s a pretty high chance of dying.
- pessimizer 4y agoThe US government murdered, by some estimates, around 10K people by poisoning alcohol during prohibition.
- gruez 4y agoDid they poison alcohol that they knew were destined for human consumption (eg. they found some moonshiner's shack, broke in, poisoned the alcohol, and then left)? Or did they poison industrial alcohols not meant for human consumption? I can see how the former would be murder, but not the latter.
- kasey_junk 4y agoThey added poison to industrial alcohols because they knew it was being used by people for consumption.
- salawat 4y agoThe industry whitewashing language is "creating abuse-resistant/deterrant formulations". Sounds great on paper, but the mechanism is generally some variant of "if you do abusive behavior with this you'll die or suffer some other health threatening complication. In other words, poisoning.
- codefreeordie 4y agoIn other news, many opioid pain medicines are only available in formulations mixed with acetaminophen, as a "deterrent" to abuse, because acetaminophen is acutely toxic in moderately large doses.