Proud Canadian
Holy shit. That's terrible.
If you don't like a single Frank Ocean song, you have no soul.
Dead? You thought wrong
I changed accounts.
And this is why I say fuck your (<— no one here in particular) "people have a right to drugs," in an ideal world the War on Drugs would have worked and we wouldn't have stupid bullshit like this. Unfortunately, Russia is so thoroughly corrupt that an attempt to crack down on drugs would begin with populist rage and end with money going into a politician's pocket.
Poor, poor Russians...
I am now known as Flyboy.
Well, that picure is going to haunt me for quite some time. Nightmares are going to be fun tonight.
You may want to put a warning next to the link.
edited 29th Aug '11 5:55:14 PM by Pentadragon
I...just...holy shit, how...why does this stuff exist?
Oh My
And of course people continue to take it...
If someone wants to accuse us of eating coconut shells, then that's their business. We know what we're doing. - Achaan Chah
Because, Viking, people make decisions without thinking anything terrible can happen to them. "I can quit any time!"
See, stuff like this is why I think the war on drugs isn't entirely pointless. There's just some things that people for their own good should not have access to. Christ, I've heard of this stuff before and I'm too scared to look at that link.
*hrrrrrk*
I heard of this a couple months ago. Nasty as hell.
Of course my first thought was "WHY WOULD ANYONE TAKE THIS?" From what I can tell, they start out on other drugs like heroin or crack (can't remember which). When they can't get more of whatever they were using, they move on to krokodil out of desperation because it's comparatively cheap and easy to get. So yeah.
What's amazing to me is how easily you can make krokodil. It's literally common household items.
edited 29th Aug '11 5:59:57 PM by Merlo
Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am...
I changed accounts.
To summarize for those too squeamish to look: there's a woman holding her arm up, and the skin and muscle tissue is all gone for the majority of her lower arm, leaving only bone...
edited 29th Aug '11 6:03:44 PM by USAF713
I am now known as Flyboy.
Holy fucking shit on a brick!!! I was about to go to bed... not any more 
I'm going to need to see something really nice before I can get over that. And I mean melt in your heart nice =/
![[up]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/smiles/arrow_up.png "[up]"){kind=icon}
Way to go putting that exact image back in my head by words :S
edited 29th Aug '11 6:01:42 PM by PiccoloNo92
*hrrrrrk*
^^ I heard that picture was faked. Still gross as hell.
I don't doubt the effects of the stuff, though. There's more videos on youtube.
edited 29th Aug '11 6:00:58 PM by Merlo
Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am...
I'm curious to know how, if at all, Russia deals with drug addiction in the populace.
Pro-Freedom Fanatic
For the pro-War on Drugs folks: If those junkies had cheap access to medical-quality morphine, they wouldn't be shooting up the gangrene-inducing chemical, would they? 
*hrrrrrk*
From what I've heard you don't buy krokodil, you make it yourself. Out of common household items and cough syrup.
And people don't start out on krokodil, they start using it when cocaine/heroin prices are too high.
Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am...
Dead? You thought wrong
It is insane that people are that desperate!
See, that just makes me even more concerned. Who the fuck comes up with this shit anyway? Oh hey, I think I'll put all this stuff in the pan and see if I can come up with something to get high on? Fuck.
USAF; thank you. I will probably have a nightmare about that now. Agh.
They're already on hardcore stuff; they're just cranking it Up To Eleven.
*hrrrrrk*
What's concerning is that you can't do much, legally, to get rid of it other than restricting pharmaceutical drugs.
Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am...
I changed accounts.
This isn't an argument, this is "they'll do it either way, might as well enable them."
The only reason the War on Drugs doesn't work is because all the nations of the world refuse to enforce it. To that end, I would legalize drugs because it would be easier to restrict them that way. Tax and regulate them into the ground, and replace every junkie in jail with a dealer, so that the junkies can go to rehab and be done with it.
For those who can't stomach going to bed with that mental image.
◊
edited 29th Aug '11 6:13:36 PM by USAF713
I am now known as Flyboy.
Just reading the text descriptions make me... arghhh >< Thank the maker for my unstable Internet connection.
Morphine kills people too you know, it's also massively addictive. As in heroine +1 addictive. Good luck being a functional human being as a morphine addict.
I can see how people get hooked on the stuff, when I had my surgery they gave me some of that shit, I was in heaven. I'd be scared to have access to the stuff over the counter.
Proud Canadian
Savage that is the worst argument I've heard yet!
If you don't like a single Frank Ocean song, you have no soul.
Pro-Freedom Fanatic
It's a heroin substitute. If the junkies had access to cheap, quality heroin they wouldn't shoot Krokodil up.
Harm reduction is the way to go: Let's say you legalize all drugs and make drug enforcement obsolete. Instead of wasting that money on cops and prisons and prosecutors and punitive crap, you fund rehab for the junkies who request it, and you let them shoot up in peace otherwise.
They won't be O Ding: They'll know what they're using. You could even legalize some stimulants and opiates for recreational use and not others, further nudging addicts into safer and equally enjoyable drugs for the sake of convenience.
Say you legalize amphetamine, but not meth. A few opiates, but not heroin. Ecstacy, but not GHB. The sheer force of convenience would make most addicts shift to those drugs, which are somewhat safer and more or less still allow them to function.
It's a cheaper and more effective way to regulate drug use.
edited 29th Aug '11 6:19:59 PM by SavageHeathen
You exist because we allow it and you will end because we demand it.
And here I thought Meth was the worst drug around... yikes.
The drug that eats junkies
At the injection site, which can be anywhere from the feet to the forehead, the addict's skin becomes greenish and scaly, like a crocodile's, as blood vessels burst and the surrounding tissue dies. Gangrene and amputations are a common result, while porous bone tissue, especially in the lower jaw, often starts to dissipate, eaten up by the drug's acidity. For Pavlova, the breaking point came in 2008, when she holed herself up in her brother's apartment for two weeks and did almost nothing but cook the drug and inject it into the femoral artery in her groin. "The high lasts about an hour and a half, and it takes about an hour to cook it. So I was basically cooking and shooting 24 hours a day," she says. By the end of the binge, gangrene had begun to develop around her groin and blood poisoning was setting in.
Picture of end-stage krokodil addict. (Sick)
◊ It literally eats away peoples' bodies.
edited 29th Aug '11 5:56:50 PM by Shichibukai
Requiem ~ September 2010 - October 2011 [Banned 4 Life]