Awesome...now, to go along with all of the insane laws we have to abide by just to buy a freaking box of cold medicine, there will now be legislation introduced to make it illegal to go to the bathroom unless you fill out the appropriate paperwork first. Then, records of all of your bathroom trips for the next 2 years will be kept in case they detect "excessive urination" and raid your home.
how do you drink urine..i would think they would vomit before they could drink enough to get an effect.
LordMaul
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What... no one else is calling BS on this? I call massive shens. These people are way more likely to go steal and sell crap as junkies are wont to do than put forth the effort required to gather and drink gallons of piss to get a most likely negligible amount of the drug. This sounds just like a Snopes.com page waiting to happen...
Originally posted by: stinger25
Thats so disgusting, that its making it difficult to finish my beer!
Now don't think about beer's yellow color and why the bar's returned kegs might not be empty.
You've smoked meth over 100 times....yet you didn't feel the urge to get another bag? But somehow you kept doing it? BWAHAHAHHAHAH
WTF, are you really that retarded??
Jeff7
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This got me thinking - maybe drug addicts should be given R&D grants. It'd be a technology breeder, similar to the space program. They're highly motivated to do new work, and they could yield some important spinoffs. In this case, the spinoff could be some kind of sewage treatment system that'd fit right in your toilet. The water would be filtered out, purified, and either pumped back into the house's water mains, or else dumped outside somewhere, while only concentrated waste goes into the sewage system.
techs
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Actually the article is GOOD NEWS.
As I posted in another thread there are only about 9 manufacturing facilities in the world that make pseudephridine or ephidrine, the ingredient used to make meth. Since the US DEA finally got around big pharmas influence they went to these labs and asked (yes, asked) them to only sell to certified customers, 99 percent of whom use it to make otc cold medicine.
This dried up a huge amount of the raw materials to make meth. Since the new regulations went into effect requiring you show i.d. when buying pseudephedrine, a very simple process, the large amounts of raw material are no longer available for domestic meth labs. Even "smurfing" going from one store to another to buy small amounts of cold medicine has been curbed.
The result has been a drop in the purity and availability of meth in the U.S., hence addicts resorting to drinking urine.
This has led to a drop in deaths and drug related crime from meth, and an increase in addicts seeking treatment.
Currently the U.S. is in the process of adding Mexico to the international agreement on pseudephedrine, the same type of agreement that wiped out Qualuudes. Mexico will only be allowed to buy a certain amount of pseudephedrine from the 9 plants I previously mentioned. Their is a formula that determines what is an appropriate amount for each country (with a generous headroom) based on factors like population. Without the huge un-needed quantities going to Mexico there is real hope that meth, one of the very worst drugs out there and one that up til just a year ago could be made in any home, will drastically be reduced.
As I posted in another thread there are only about 9 manufacturing facilities in the world that make pseudephridine or ephidrine, the ingredient used to make meth. Since the US DEA finally got around big pharmas influence they went to these labs and asked (yes, asked) them to only sell to certified customers, 99 percent of whom use it to make otc cold medicine.
This dried up a huge amount of the raw materials to make meth. Since the new regulations went into effect requiring you show i.d. when buying pseudephedrine, a very simple process, the large amounts of raw material are no longer available for domestic meth labs. Even "smurfing" going from one store to another to buy small amounts of cold medicine has been curbed.
The result has been a drop in the purity and availability of meth in the U.S., hence addicts resorting to drinking urine.
This has led to a drop in deaths and drug related crime from meth, and an increase in addicts seeking treatment.
Currently the U.S. is in the process of adding Mexico to the international agreement on pseudephedrine, the same type of agreement that wiped out Qualuudes. Mexico will only be allowed to buy a certain amount of pseudephedrine from the 9 plants I previously mentioned. Their is a formula that determines what is an appropriate amount for each country (with a generous headroom) based on factors like population. Without the huge un-needed quantities going to Mexico there is real hope that meth, one of the very worst drugs out there and one that up til just a year ago could be made in any home, will drastically be reduced.
I know NASA has similar technology to what you're describing, and submarines may be equipped with this technology. I highly doubt that this would be cost-efficient in being implemented, although it could be beneficial in areas that suffer water shortages in the summer months.
Cerpin Taxt
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Apparently this isn't the first time someone's tried to get meth from urine:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/12/03/BAGECG2AOV1.DTL
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..nearly burnt the place down cooking pizz. amazing.
But Zeiszler's experiment went dangerously awry when he spilled some solvent on himself, then lit a cigarette while he contemplated his next move, starting a fire that burned his right hand and arm.
The hotel was evacuated. Firefighters were summoned. So were hazardous materials experts.
Zeiszler, a 22-year-old employee of a San Francisco recycling depot, landed in jail.
"Did you know you can get methamphetamine from urine?" asked an incredulous Steve Wagstaffe, San Mateo County chief deputy district attorney, in an interview after the sentencing. "The methodology this guy used would work, but it would take bottles and bottles of urine -- not one void of a bladder."
Make that gallons of urine, said William Johnston, Zeiszler's attorney, who described his client's attempt to reclaim excreted methamphetamine from his urine as a "really, really silly" move.
Methamphetamine, a powerful stimulant that produces an intense rush, can also cause convulsions, strokes, stomach cramps, shaking, cardiac arrhythmia and a dangerous rise in body temperature.
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