One of the 10 Commandments I learned as a child was phrased, “Thou shall not kill”. Most of us understand it to mean that homicide which is not justified by self defense or other mitigating factors is a grave sin, a mortal sin in most religions. Does the government have the moral right to execute …
Tag Archives: drugs
More Random Thoughts
Did you know smoking pot can make you sick to your stomach? I didn’t know, either, until I read a piece in The Washington Post the other day, by Leona Wen, who made her bones as Baltimore City Health Commissioner. Dr Wen has written a number of articles in media since the start of the …
Drugs and Alphabet Soup
Over the last century, the Federal effort to fight illicit drug trafficking has been carried out by several agencies: FBN (Federal Bureau of Narcotics), BDAC (Bureau of Drug Abuse Control), BNDD (Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs) and the current flagship, DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration). Conventional wisdom argued that the agency best suited to solve …
Drug Factoids – Heroin
For most of my career with the Feds, heroin was considered (to borrow an ancient FBI label) Public Enemy #1. In this century, it has lost the title to fentanyl, but for most of my time with DEA, its major focus was on heroin. The drug’s effect on humans is actually quite similar to fentanyl. …
QA and QC (Your FDA in Peace and War)
Earlier in my illlustrious career with Uncle Sam, I was a chemist with the Food & Drug Administration (FDA). This was in the ’60s, back when everything seemed possible. I worked for the New York office, which encompassed the New Jersey pharmaceutical industry. Some bright people far above my pay grade started a new program, …
Legalized Pot: Are We Ready for this?
About a year ago, I posted some thoughts on aspects ol marihuana legalization. At this point, it would seem that the cat is out of the bag, so to speak – about 36 states have taken some steps to decriminalize the stuff. As I’ve said in other posts, I am wholeheartedly in favor of legalization …
Before I Check Out
Before I check out……also, to be able to converse with my adult children, I need to know: What is the difference between 4G LTE and 5G LTE? Apparently, it will change my life forever. You hear about it every cell provider commercial, so it must be true. What exactly is Bluetooth? Incidentally, has anybody noticed …
My First Blog Post
The Biden crime bill and Crack — Oscar Wilde. In the late 1980’s, cities in this country were confronted with a new drug fad involving cocaine; namely, “freebasing”. Traditionally, cocaine is abused by “snorting”; the user inhales the powder up the nose. This can be somewhat uncomfortable, In that the individual crystals are rather sharp, …
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