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Descriptions of acute effects in toluene abusers include initial "hilarity," exhilaration, and irritability followed by increasing relaxation and lethargy that may progress to coma and death. However, during prolonged exposure to low levels of toluene (less than 600 ppm) depressive symptoms, fatigue and lassitude with depressed reflexes predominate, whereas exposure to higher levels of toluene (600 to 800 ppm) can elicit excitatory symptoms, such as feelings of exhilaration (Benignus, 1981). Additionally, residual activating symptoms of nervousness, insomnia, and agitation have been described during days following prolonged toluene exposure of 600 ppm suggesting a possible withdrawal effect (Schaumburg, 2000).
Toluene interferes with a number of cognitive and perceptual functions both during the acute intoxication and as residual sequelae of high-level exposure. During intoxication, toluene abusers are prone to confusion, altered level of consciousness, and perceptual distortions, including paranoid auditory and visual hallucinations. In the long-term, a decline in intelligence quotients, residual dementia, and persistent psychosis featuring prominent visual hallucinations are observed (Byrne et al., 1991).
That little vacuum is awesome!
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I've never tried hard drugs or even extacy due to a rather unfortunate example set by someone close to me over two decades ago, who was hooked on heroine for 5 years. This drug is f*cking evil. There are not a lot of things that frighten me in this world anymore, but the way heroine and morphine change someones personality and being is one of them.
The whole USA cannabis obsession (and as a matter of fact, atheist developments as well) is such a non-event from my perspective. On a scale of a tea club with respectable ladies in traditional dresses, armed to knit you a nice sweater on one side, and your average pub, where the atmosphere gets more aggressive as the night gets older on the other, I'd put coffee shops somewhere in between. Possibly closer to the tea club. Fairly innocent. No one ever OD'ed on cannabis. There is no fighting. Disadvantages? Would you like your kid to walk in? (must be 18 though). And the supply chain is still illegal, thus profitable and criminal and not regulated (how clean is it?). Anyway, if someone is against coffee shops, they probably like to drink alcohol. Which is the stronger drug, so the first thing to discuss would be to make that illegal.
There actually have been theories that there's a forbidden fruit effect with marijuana here, even.
Man, thats quite a bit of information. Glad you broke free of it. I did a fair amount of mescaline back in the day but thankfully have not suffered because of it ( at least not like that guy in my avatar, man he hasn't even moved in weeks ). : )
At least I don't think I have.
Just curious, but where do you get morphine?
Its not a street level drug, at least not that I am aware of.
It's taxed as soon as the leprechauns brought it in I think, but stock may not exceed..500 gram or something like that. Maybe less. Of course it is taxed. Probably triple. If you think your taxes are high, that's nothing.
yea, I took a drag on a cigarette once. made me cough, i put it down. Lol, I think thats about it. ;)
Well the Netherlands has a statistical low ratio of cannabis users, lower than the USA and lower than all countries around us (UK, France, Germany...)
The more popular yet illegal drugs like XTC was and cocaine is now are offered on parties and certain street corners and such by dealers, probably the same as elsewhere.
good for you. tobacco is one monkey that I have yet to break free from. It will most certainly be the death of me.
Still working great. :)
I'd kinda like to try browns, but it's not gonna be soon - I just dropped $230 on a RiscPC. :eek: (And I'll most likely be using my trusty 1391401 on it...)
Hell, I kicked caffeine back in 2007.
well it helped that i grew up in a household where smoking was seen as just about the most heinous, shocking thing a person could do, lol. My folks were militantly anti-smoking. I guess it rubbed off on me, all those years of indoctrination on my impressionable young mind.
I did try pot once at a friends place (I wasnt completely a shut-in, in my college years, lol). It was pleasant, I've nothing against it, but again the subconcious indoctrination against drugs of any kind would keep me from seeking it out on my own.
I did get utterly ****faced a few times but then hey, who hasnt.
I think my current addiction is chocolate and too much sugar in my diet, which I've had for several decades, and likely will continue to have until I eventually get diabetes, lol. That'll teach me.
oh yea, I can count caffeine as an addiction I suppose. I have at least 3 cups a day, if I stop I get migraine headaches which I assume is some kind of withdrawl. They last about a week and then I'm okay (I survive them with lots of advil). But then I start up again because, hey, why not. Coffee is fun and the perfect procrastination before sitting down to do real work. ;)
Yeah, I went through headaches for about a week. (I went from ~6-8 cans of fake-brand Mountain Dew per day to zero.)
And I had a friend who smokes and drinks caffeine quite regularly, and drinks occasionally, who thought I was freaking insane for quitting caffeine. :p
I had to give up caffeine, though I sneak a couple of cups in here and there. Nowadays its decaf. Which mostly blows. But I find the maxwell house decaf to be pretty decent.
I went through the headache thing too.
You know, if I keep this up, I just might be able to catch up to wellingtons thread count : )
1269 and counting...
I've been looking for a decent decaf, maybe to do half/half cups. Maxwell house instant? (they dont sell beans, do they?). I'll have to try it.
I drink instant at home for the convenience. Tasters choice really isnt bad, its about the only instant brand I can stand. Much stronger than the other instant brands.
well look, the only thing i've got left to say on this site is which brand of instant coffee I like. Lol. So you definitely have a good chance of catching up ;)
I think we are both spent : ) at least until I get a realforce : )
lol. you'll prolly get your realforce before I get mine, I'm sure. I prolly wont get it till next year. (Hell i'm not yet sure I want one, tho once I have some excess cash, I'm sure curiosity will get the better of me).
Of course, if lowpoly is able to produce his keyboard that would have to be added to the list too. : )
It's taxed as soon as the leprechauns brought it in
Try it with this:
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(the more it moves the slower your brain is :D )
It moves?
Oops I got two picture subscripts mixed up. It was the "the more it moves, the more potent your sperm is" instead.