Cheeseheads?

The friendly moniker “Cheesehead” could mean a much different thing in the future if drug gangsters get their way. “Cheese” is in the early stages of one of those drug hysterias we’ve all soon all too often.

“Cheese” - in case you don’t already know, refers to heroin which has been cut with Tylenol PM. Apparently, all the drug crusaders in Texas (where else?) have their panties in a knot over this because, at two bucks a hit, a lot of the kiddies have been using it.

I see no reason why the diphenhydramine or acetamenifen in Tylenol PM would in any way combine chemically with morphine to make some new derivitive that Professor Bentley missed. It’s probably just simple potentiation in opioid-naive (that’s a scientific term, really) users.

Now the CongressCreeps are getting in on the fun. Courtesy of MAP

If you don’t want to read it here’s the short version:
Sen John Cornyn - a Republican as if I had to tell you - wants cheese to be a “national priority” and be added to the list of drugs specifically mentioned by the National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign. It could be worse, I guess. They could’ve torn another small piece off the Constitution for this one. I’m all for education. The problems happen when they lie to the kids.

Watch for the Media to pick this one up and run with it as far as they can. “New! Improved! Killer-heroin!” Which network do you think will be the first to trot this one out? ABC? FOX?

I’d give my left…leg if, just once, when the pols start blathering about the latest “Killer Drug!”, a reporter would ask something like this:
“Doesn’t drug prohibition cause the development of newer and cheaper drugs that are more potent? Isn’t it true that, in a regulated system, it would be much harder for kids to get drugs like this?”

Naw, never happen.

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