Not Mellow At All
Jul. 3rd, 2008 10:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
danalwynI don't usually say anything about drug users, mostly because they don't figure much in my life. I rarely feel the need to criticize them as a group. And of all the groups that I thought I would end up criticizing, users of marijuana seemed to be the lowest on the list. Although I dislike using the word mellow to describe them as a group, I have to admit that it does seem to fit, even though I suspect that, on the whole, they are much like any other group of randomly selected people. Even though they can sometimes be aggravating, I never thought that they would get my blood pressure up.
But potheads in South Africa have finally managed to go beyond the pale by developing a new type of marijuana. Someone discovered that by combining marijuana with the drug Stocrin, you could obtain a more intense high, or at least a different one, due to the buzz that Stocrin normally gives you. Which means that, the drug market being what it is, there is now a shortage of Stocrin in South Africa.
Which is a problem, because Stocrin is a reverse transcriptase inhibitor, not widely available, with only one real medical purpose: to combat HIV.
Which means that people with HIV are being robbed of their drugs so that marijuana users can get a better high.
Which, in my book, is just wrong.
So let me confirm, in case there are any people of this type by chance reading this journal. If you are stealing drugs from AIDS patients so that you can get high, you are, indeed, an asshole. But don't worry. In a country where the official HIV infection rate is over 10%, I'm sure that some of you will have some poetic justice coming your way very soon.
But potheads in South Africa have finally managed to go beyond the pale by developing a new type of marijuana. Someone discovered that by combining marijuana with the drug Stocrin, you could obtain a more intense high, or at least a different one, due to the buzz that Stocrin normally gives you. Which means that, the drug market being what it is, there is now a shortage of Stocrin in South Africa.
Which is a problem, because Stocrin is a reverse transcriptase inhibitor, not widely available, with only one real medical purpose: to combat HIV.
Which means that people with HIV are being robbed of their drugs so that marijuana users can get a better high.
Which, in my book, is just wrong.
So let me confirm, in case there are any people of this type by chance reading this journal. If you are stealing drugs from AIDS patients so that you can get high, you are, indeed, an asshole. But don't worry. In a country where the official HIV infection rate is over 10%, I'm sure that some of you will have some poetic justice coming your way very soon.