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They're showing up and paying people to be filmed shooting up, thus encouraging the shooting up further. People high on the drug are being recorded being asked

They're showing up and paying people to be filmed shooting up, thus encouraging the shooting up further. People high on the drug are being recorded being asked highly personal things when in a state where they cannot properly consent, thus likely only exacerbating the issues that caused them to rely on drugs by adding more embarassment. Plus, since it's being done for clout, like many other TikTok trends, it'll continue to escalate in extremeness until something more drastic happens.

adolph 3y ago
So the trouble tranq tourists cause is: * encouraging tranq use by paying users of tranq * adding embarrassment to users of tranq It seems like paying someone else to take an illegal substance is as prosecutable as purchasing the drug yourself, maybe even more if the person paid is not able to consent. I wonder why the municipality is not arresting people for this activity. Interestingly: Tranq is not a federally controlled substance. That means it’s not deemed illegal to use by itself under federal law. You can get it with a veterinarian’s prescription. https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/addiction/what-is-tranq-xylazine https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/addiction/what-is-tranq-...
- zoklet-enjoyer 3y ago
  I'm eating a bagel while I type this. Whether or not you pay to record me eating a bagel won't change how much bagel eating I'm doing. You're not forcing me. You're paying me to do something I was already doing.
  - ornornor 3y ago
    Good that neither a bagel nor tranqs are addictive and that the user is totally in control with both products.
    - zoklet-enjoyer 3y ago
      Yes
    - parentheses 3y ago
      Maybe you're being sarcastic and it isn't clear but a bagel and tranq are different in one major way - one is addictive and causes necrosis.
      - ornornor 3y ago
        Yes I was being sarcastic to parent and their bagel example.
  - sjfjsjdjwvwvc 3y ago
    „I‘m doing $thing. Whether or not you pay me to do $thing won’t change how much I do $thing.“ I hope you see how bad that argument is, especially if $thing is a highly addictive drug.
    - zoklet-enjoyer 3y ago
      Not a bad argument. They're going to do it anyway
      - sjfjsjdjwvwvc 3y ago
        You still give them an incentive to do more, in a more extreme fashion, while funding their habit, offering nothing positive in return, sensationalising their plight, and profiting off their mental issues. I hope for your sake you will never be in a position where people can exploit you like that. So yea still as bad as an argument can get.
- girvo 3y ago
  Xylazine is rarely taken on it's own, it's bought as a combination of various fentanyl analogs or nitazene analogs and xylazine added. Horrific stuff.

adolph 3y ago

So the trouble tranq tourists cause is: * encouraging tranq use by paying users of tranq * adding embarrassment to users of tranq It seems like paying someone else to take an illegal substance is as prosecutable as purchasing the drug yourself, maybe even more if the person paid is not able to consent. I wonder why the municipality is not arresting people for this activity. Interestingly: Tranq is not a federally controlled substance. That means it’s not deemed illegal to use by itself under federal law. You can get it with a veterinarian’s prescription. https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/addiction/what-is-tranq-xylazine https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/addiction/what-is-tranq-...

zoklet-enjoyer 3y ago
I'm eating a bagel while I type this. Whether or not you pay to record me eating a bagel won't change how much bagel eating I'm doing. You're not forcing me. You're paying me to do something I was already doing.
- ornornor 3y ago
  Good that neither a bagel nor tranqs are addictive and that the user is totally in control with both products.
  - zoklet-enjoyer 3y ago
    Yes
  - parentheses 3y ago
    Maybe you're being sarcastic and it isn't clear but a bagel and tranq are different in one major way - one is addictive and causes necrosis.
    - ornornor 3y ago
      Yes I was being sarcastic to parent and their bagel example.
- sjfjsjdjwvwvc 3y ago
  „I‘m doing $thing. Whether or not you pay me to do $thing won’t change how much I do $thing.“ I hope you see how bad that argument is, especially if $thing is a highly addictive drug.
  - zoklet-enjoyer 3y ago
    Not a bad argument. They're going to do it anyway
    - sjfjsjdjwvwvc 3y ago
      You still give them an incentive to do more, in a more extreme fashion, while funding their habit, offering nothing positive in return, sensationalising their plight, and profiting off their mental issues. I hope for your sake you will never be in a position where people can exploit you like that. So yea still as bad as an argument can get.
girvo 3y ago
Xylazine is rarely taken on it's own, it's bought as a combination of various fentanyl analogs or nitazene analogs and xylazine added. Horrific stuff.