Goon love is the best love
For the unware:
Joose is phenazepam. It is an artificial (read: completely lab created) benzo that the soviets developed as they wanted as a cheap, a long-shelf life combat surgery painkiller for WWIII. What they created was too powerful (and has some undesired side effects) and largely forgotten for a long time: effective dozes are measured in micrograms. It was rediscovered in the "designer research chemical" era of the 2000s, where people were looking for weird molecules that weren't quite drugs that could be made in china and wouldn't trigger customs.
Phenazepam has amnestic qualities - that is, it inhibits memory formation so you have no or very fragmented memories of what you did while high.
Phenazepam has not been federally banned because while it is ridiculously easy to overdose, said overdozes are not usually (directly) fatal, though they will fuck your mind up. But if you're using a drug known to ruin your life and leave you with no memory of having done so... I'm not sure anyone will notice if your mind is lost.
The other dangerous part of Phenazepam, and why junkies love it, is because it has an EXTREMELY long half life. Forget that shot of junk keeping you high all afternoon, forget those edibles that keep you vegged out on the couch all day, Joose will have you high for DAYS.
One of the things that kept Da Joose from being adopted by the soviets was the rather long metabolizing time. That is, when you dose up, you might not feel it for an hour or so.
So let's put all these factors together. You have a benzo that is effective in micrograms doses, while high you can't make new long-term memories, and you'll remain high for days after dosing - if you overdose you will be in a benzo-fiend state for a week.
And what does a junkie want do the most out anything: get high. So you will have these award-winning paragons of humanity dose up, decide its not working, dose again, and then in addition to getting a double whammy of dosage lack the memory to remember when they last got high and continue to take more. So they will often be in a benzo hole, acting like a benzo junkie, for WEEKS. They will emerge from their trip in the shattered wreckage of their lives and no memory of how their life was destroyed. They destroyed it, but it might as well been a stranger.
Anyway, you can google up Phenazepam trip reports and they are all universally hilarious. Some guy bought a piano for his tiny apartment. Another guy goes from engaged & gainfully employed to extremely unemployed, his fiancee no longer speaking to him and her father threatening to kill him if he tries to contact his daughter again, and being sought for questioning by the cops about a hit-and-run he did while high - hit something and then abandoned his car.
tl;dr: Everyone who ever did Phenazepam deserves a lolcow thread (and summary execution for being a tard)
The mod who inspired "my nigga have you tried LSD"
@HondaRider271 is a national treasure and to be fair to the completely retarded suggestion he made, there are studies that suggest that LSD can help an addict disassociate from their addiction and realize what they are doing to themselves/their life if nothing else has helped.
Gambling got cracked down on in a similar fashion.
Gambling wasn't cracked down on by the Admins so much as there was a time in the mid/late aughts that laws hadn't caught up to online gambling. Online casinos fishing for degenerate gamblers would do the "load $25 get $50 after 10 hands of poker" sort of deals. As recall the scam was to load your free account, play poker while counting cards, and while you might bust you'd come out ahead if you kept playing it. You'd then tap out before the $600 income reporting threshhold, then create a new account.
Once the law caught up and all these costa rican casinos had to shut down, gambling subforum dropped to almost nothing as now gambling required you to leave your mom's basement so Goons weren't interested. There was one thread about poker that was consistently active. The forums in general were contracting, and someone bitched about the forum being called "Poker in the rear" so the subforum was closed and the thread moved to games.
