Comments on: The Ginger Jake poisonings http://mindhacks.com/2011/06/30/the-ginger-jake-poisonings/ Neuroscience and psychology news and views. Fri, 17 May 2013 22:36:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Eric http://mindhacks.com/2011/06/30/the-ginger-jake-poisonings/#comment-20504 Thu, 14 Jul 2011 02:01:39 +0000 http://mindhacks.com/?p=18544#comment-20504 This was in “Water for elephants”. I didn’t know that it was real.

]]> By: Emmy http://mindhacks.com/2011/06/30/the-ginger-jake-poisonings/#comment-20260 Sun, 03 Jul 2011 02:03:00 +0000 http://mindhacks.com/?p=18544#comment-20260 Ha! So are you willing to say out loud, which newspaper you think is the Ginger Jake of news sources? ;)

I still find it hard to believe that people would consume a drink like that. Although some drugs have a more insidious effect – I still wonder how my days of taking Restoril and working the next day with a leaky isoflurane machine affected my liver.

]]> By: Michael http://mindhacks.com/2011/06/30/the-ginger-jake-poisonings/#comment-20234 Thu, 30 Jun 2011 14:27:30 +0000 http://mindhacks.com/?p=18544#comment-20234 This story makes me think about current trends in drug prohibition. If the substance of choice is banned, people will find substitutes, even if those substitutes are more dangerous than the original. As legislators close loopholes on cannabis substitutes, would-be stoners just move from potpourri that tastes like glass to bath salts that cause suicidal ideation. After witnessing the horror of alternative, a little bit of alcohol or mary jane just doesn’t look so bad.

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