Horrific flesh-rotting drug krokodil may be in Chicago, doctor says

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28. Of course not.

Weed would not have any effect on the use of this type of drug because they are completely different types of drugs. Weed and heroin are two different drugs with different types of highs. The people who want heroin, are not going to go out looking for weed. That would be like deciding you want lobster for dinner, then ordering tacos at the drive through at Taco Bell. You won't get lobster if you are ordering the wrong thing altogether.

If somebody wants weed, they'll smoke weed. People would use this krokodil drug in place of heroin. If heroin wasn't so heavily fought in the war on drugs and regulated instead, the people who would be using heroin would not have to turn to these synthetic drugs.

http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/Misc/60minliv.htm
This is a link to a transcript of a 60 Minutes piece I saw years ago. It explains about the natural drugs in their pure form and how someone can be healthy while dealing with their addictions if given the natural drug they are addicted to.

The point is these synthetic drugs would not even need to be invented if the war on drugs was not causing the prices of street drugs and the consequences of trying to find them so devastating. We have prisons full of drug addicts while child molesters and murderers walk free. Something is wrong with that picture.

The war on drugs drives the prices of the nature-made, non-synthetic drugs up so high because it costs money to try to avoid the damn police, and military in some cases, while growing, harvesting, preparing, and shipping the plants it takes to make them. This synthetic crap can be made just about anywhere, i.e. in a bathtub. The people making these synthetic drugs are obviously not chemists. They put chemicals in these synthetic drugs that are way worse on the body than the natural drug ever was. I'm pretty sure there is no red phosphorus or lye or embalming fluid growing on or in a poppy plant.