"Catchings described the potency of DMT as β10 timesβ that of LSD."
I guess you can't expect the media to do ANY fact checking now a days, even if its spending 30 seconds doing a google search. And a full blown hazmat team for some lye solutions and NP solvents?
I understand that they take all necessary precautions when deconstructing "labs", but anyone with a brain could have figured out that is way overkill if they asked the occupants what chems were in those jars.
Still, seeing that many big jars, makes you wonder if it was an extraction lab for someone dealing it. Seeing how they got caught, i'm guessing these dudes weren't the sharpest knives in the kitchen.
Still feel bad they are most likely going to prison though. Every time i see these stories all i think about is how much of my tax dollars are being wasted on this BS, when they could be used to help society rather than punish those who harm none but themselves, if at all.
"let those who have talked to the elves, find each other and band together" -TMK
In a society in which nearly everybody is dominated by somebody else's mind or by a disembodied mind, it becomes increasingly difficult to learn the truth about the activities of governments and corporations, about the quality or value of products, or about the health of one's own place and economy.
In such a society, also, our private economies will depend less upon the private ownership of real, usable property, and more upon property that is institutional and abstract, beyond individual control, such as money, insurance policies, certificates of deposit, stocks, etc. And as our private economies become more abstract, the mutual, free helps and pleasures of family and community life will be supplanted by a kind of displaced citizenship and by commerce with impersonal and self-interested suppliers...
The great enemy of freedom is the alignment of political power with wealth. This alignment destroys the commonwealth - that is, the natural wealth of localities and the local economies of household, neighborhood, and community - and so destroys democracy, of which the commonwealth is the foundation and practical means.β - Wendell Berry