NEWS: DEA "Drugs of Abuse" Catalog Leaves Many Wondering: Where Do I Order?

CULTURE: DEA "Drugs of Abuse" Catalog Leaves Many Wondering: Where Do I Order?

The DEA's new "Drugs of Abuse" publication (fully online) has been released to much fanfare from current and former drug abusers.

A guide so complete, thorough and full of enticing hilarious photographs, it truly must be seen to be believed. Containing fantastic spoof(?) "rave posters", and a full color pill chart, the guide helped me identify and swiftly consume several mystery pills that had been lying about my apartment. Thanks DEA!

Mr. Sun has a hilarious review of The Guide here.

Heh.

There must be some DEA subcontractors who get to have tons of fun making these publications. I think I want their job.

The review is much fun, and shows some scans off the guide. totally hilarious!!!!

Looks to me more like the art teacher purchasing from the gym teacher.

If there's anything that makes the drug war worth waging, it's the unintentional comedy value of government propaganda.

i need some acid now.

Soooo, that's what a ''BONG'' looks like.
Thank you Mr. DEA

mmmmm.....mushrooms.....

They have to know that there are a ton of people out there who are going to look at this, smile to themselves and think, "Well, my to-do list is written."

It's like I now have a giant checklist... Quick, someone go make one of those internet purity quizzes where you get points for all the stuff on the list you've happened upon lol...

odi omnes

This *totally* makes me want to not use steroids, EVER.

DEA publications are almost always good for a few laughs

Actually it looks more like if I purchase or sell drugs I get to touch boobies...I'm in.

My absolute favourite has to be LSD. There is no physical dependence, and unknown (meaning no?) psychologial dependence. The effects are

sounds pretty wicked. But the best part is the effects of an overdose:

What!?! If you take too much all that happens is you have a better experience? Holy Zombie Jesus, hook me up.
And the withdrawl behaviour? none!

I was unsure about whether I wanted to try LSD. Now I'm actually a lot more certain. Thanks DEA.

Drugs are bad, don't do them. *snorts a line*

Kid at my school jumped out a window on LSD. Witnesses say he though he was being chased by something, though exactly what, accounts vary.

Anyway, dunno if that counts as a "side effect" or what...

I can't stop thinking about Fear and Loathing in las vegas........

I don't see why the DEA document is "funny". Most of it is good quality, reliable, researched, information. That's important for harm reduction amoungst drug users. This is no "Reefer Madness" document. There don't appear (on my breif skim reading of it) to be any alarmist health claims.

Medicin identification isn't anything new; the British National Formulary or eMIMs have "tictac" images.

But really, is this propaganda? Apart from their insistance on using the word "abuser" rather than "user" it seems like it is " clear, scientific information about drugs in a factual, straightforward way, combined with scores of precise photographs shot to scale" and that it " fulfills an important educational need in our society".


Maybe I just needed to smoke a bowl before reading this article?

Drugs are bad kids!

Weed makes you feel like everything is beautiful, and life is worth living;

While shrooms, make you feel like life and sociality are some of the most perfectly developed parts of human nature -- and although we're crooked as 'mankind' they make you feel like it's worth being a better person to live this life;

And finally, ecstasy makes you feel like you are able to talk about things to other people!

So remember kids! Don't do any of these drugs, because we're human, and doing any of the above things is *bad*!

Way to contribute; did you even read the DEA link?

all those weed plants are making my eye's red just thinking about it

You can see this particular artists work at www.kidrobot.com.

A fair point. But in a word, yes, it's propaganda. Take a look at the section on MDMA,

MDMA neurotoxicity and long-term damage has been debunked but the DEA refuses to reveal as much. "Organ failure and death" like several famous cases in Florida resulted from PMA, a (then) legal analog that's quite dangerous and would not exist without prohibition.

To quote Joe Goebbels, propaganda never involves the telling of lies, but of carefully selected half truths.