(shamelessly stolen off true anon)

  • Acute_Engles [he/him, any]@hexbear.net
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    I remember when someone would get too stoned and freak out saying it was laced. The common wisdom at the time was that it would be a waste of money to lace weed because all the other drugs are more expensive.

  • “He was moving 50 kilos of raw marijuana.”

    The drug scientist dribbles droplets from eye dropper onto some loose shake.
    The droplets turn blue.

    “I haven’t seen anything like this since I was stationed at a Blockbuster video while working for the CIA. The only place you can find this level of purity is in the attic of a 3 story walk-up in Toronto, operated by a guy named Tarragon. He developed a strain called Colonel Crunchberry that is literally 100% marijuana.”

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    Cannabis is legal for medicinal use in 42 states and legal for recreational use in 24 states. North Carolina is 1 of 8 states where marijuana is still illegal. NC is committed to being the worst state in the country.

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        NC has the second lowest labor union membership rate in the country, #1 is SC. Minimum wage in NC is still $7.25/hr. NC is a right-to-work and at-will-employment state.

        NC was the first state to introduce a anti-transgender bathroom bill in 2016.

        NC has the #1 highest rate of kidney stones. Either related to low-quality-water or bad-diet.

        NC made it illegal to remove jim-crow-era confederate statues in 2015.

        NC is 1 of 6 states which has ‘alienation of affection’ law, which allows a married person to sue a “homewrecker” for having an affair with their spouse.

        NC never officially repealed cohabitation laws. This means that unmarried heterosexual couples living in the same residence is a legal grey area.

        NC allowed 16 year old students to drive the school buses until 1988 because NC didn’t want to hire school bus drivers at minimum wage. Federal authorities stepped in to ban students from driving school buses.

        NC became an anti-BDS state in 2017. There is a public blacklist of any company that boycotts Israel. In 2015, NC also made it illegal for the state to do business with Iranian companies.

        NC made internet sportsbetting legal in 2024, while casinos are still illegal.

        NC made it legal to sue internet porn companies in 2024, which resulted in many internet porn companies blocking the state. 22 states are now blocked by porn companies.

        The state is gerrymandered to shit since 2023 and it is openly admitted.


        NC may or may not be the worst state. The complete lack of labor unions makes it really shit. NC wants to be the worst state.

        • the largest pig feedlot and largest pig slaughter facility (built by Smithfield) on the planet are located in NC.

          it is probably one of, if not the, most dangerous places to work in terms of worker accidents, maiming, etc. the line employees are, nearly exclusively, trafficked in from distressed regions of LatAm.

            • i have no doubt. i remember back some years ago when it dawned on me the danger of all those manure “lagoons” overflowing into waterways, drinking water sources, and the general community during extreme weather events. the long term and perennially expanding public health disaster of those is so fucking extreme, and i only seem to recall limited reporting on it from fringe/independent media. those things are timebombs under the best of circumstances… under extreme weather, it’s like napalm dropped on a gas station.

              the sheer brilliance of spending millions to concentrate liquid shit in a pond to rot and fester as a public health nightmare, but also extract and burn planet killing fossil fuels to create expensive fertilizers.

              industrial agriculture, as always, takes an elegant, efficient solution developed over millions of years and turns it into two highly toxic, existential nightmares.

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          On ecology, can’t forget the systematic industrial dumping of PFAS into the Cape Fear River for decades, poisoning like the southeastern quarter of the state

          • spudnik [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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            And all the coal ash duke energy improperly stores in slurry ponds that regularly leak and spill into the watershed. And all the hog farms that store all their waste improperly in lagoons and ponds that regularly leak and spill into the watershed.

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            I knew somebody who lived in Wilmington, and when I visited they demonstrated to me how the GenX in the water would dye sinks and fixtures red over time

  • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    If you’re cutting weed with something, it’s going to be tobacco or a relatively benign herb like damiana, mugwort, chamomile, catnip, peppermint, calamus, wormwood, strawberry leaf, wild dagga, valerian, or hops.

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    It upsets me how cops can just say whatever they want and thousands of people will just nod along. “Oh yes baby powder is used to cut drugs” knight-nod

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        People don’t use baby powder for that. Its just a excuse cops came up with when they got in trouble for busting shoplifters. I did research into it and the only claims come from cops. Also it doesn’t account for the other baby food and diapers found in these “busts” but I think they were also trying to claim it was drug related.

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          Me when I’m a cop and I’ve accidentally discharged my service weapon 18 times (including a reload) into a kindergarten: “uhhh I tactically ascertained that these future terrorists were smuggling dihydrogen monoxide in their veins and I made the lawful decision to relieve them of their illicit goods”

        • SkingradGuard [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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          Yeah, starch or microcrystalline cellulose is usually what they use as filler. Sometimes they even add stimulants like caffeine. But baby powder/milk powder has the wrong colour & texture for a filler.

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            You are talking about a good coke dealer. They are people who sell to bad coke dealers who do a lot of coke and get desperate. Its for sure been done. Baby laxative being a common cut and a powder has led to this on 2 occasions that I know of personally.

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              Oh, I just figured because where I’m from cocaine is for rich assholes (it comes halfway across the world from Latin America), so I assumed they’d not want to cut it with too much stuff for their customers. Thanks for the perspective.

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                It’s still really expensive and getting good quality is both difficult and costs a bundle where I am but its a college town so its easy to sell stepped on shit to kids who don’t know better. Post covid even the crack has been crazy weak. Neither have an addictive draw to me aside from the wanting to do more while you’re on it, but it never felt worth going to a bank and then calling a guy again for. For crack only the first hit is good. And it rules but just get a 2 hits worth and notice the second isnt that great and youll be less motivated, cause a second after it wears off is close to as good as the first and then you keep chasing

          • Athena5898 [any]@hexbear.net
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            That was what had me sniffing around the news story/comments at the time. Well that and if a cop says it’s sunny outside I’m going to bring my umbrella.

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              kelly sniffing around

              Baby powder wouldn’t make a good cut, but a street level dealer is generally using themselves and pretty heavily and people on coke like to try weird shit. Im sure it is done and im also sure the cops lie about it being a common thing, cause it certainly isn’t, that shit would gum up in your nostrils for one. Chances are the ones trying this arent lifting the baby powder, its people with babies and no money. I could see the fact that its kinda cakey being used to make a crack rock look a bit bigger.

        • ClathrateG [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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          baby laxative powder (levamisole) is actually a very common coke cut

          I’d imagine it could’ve come from people (intentionally or otherwise)conflating it with baby powder

          • Athena5898 [any]@hexbear.net
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            Its normally baby formula and powder. that is being talked about because that’s what is often in these “busts” and the cops need to cover their ass. Cause that shit is expensive and there are a lot of reasons why a mom might need it and can’t provide it. So there is a big shoplifting “issue” its why they put them in those anti theft cages and shit now. It’s pretty gross.

  • It’s so wild to me how much drugs exist in the world compared to how much drugs i use and how much they cost. There’s literal tons of it and the only reason it costs anything is the government and cops

    good thing this one does grow on trees n i got a good feeling about my savings in a couple months flowey-smug

  • microfiche [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    Imagine actually thinking a dude is cutting dime bags of chopped up weed with fifty bucks worth of coke. Or sponges, or whatever.