THE NAIL ENAMEL REMOVER OF THE GODS

Seeking the Visionary State is Natural, Not Criminal

by Christopher Cadden-
Special to DrugWar.com

gamma-hydroxybutyrate, or ghb
image- Erowid.org

Oct. 3, 2002

"Don’t ever trust the politics of those who promote fear, or hear their words. The fearmonger sees and knows only one, negative side to things, and so their "truths" are sadly composed of only partial truths and total lies. Do not believe the ones who frame things as only evil-no pro, only con. And whatever you do, don’t ever vote for these people."

I: OPERATION WEBSLINGER

On Thursday, September 19th, the DEA, teaming up with the RMCP, arrested over a hundred people in both Canada and the US in a sting they called Operation Webslinger. During this climax of their two-year investigation, they seized the people behind the most popular sites on the web for selling a chemical called Gamma-Butyrolactone, or GBL. 1,4 Butanediol was another suspect chemical, and what is said about GBL roughly applies to it as well. GBL is an environmentally-sound product, found in many cleaning agents--non-toxic and biodegradable. It will clean the scum from pools, the polish from your nails, and strip the paint from wood--yet it's safe enough to pour right into your mouth. Just be warned, should you attempt this, that it tastes like firewater, and within minutes your mind will melt into a flowing stream of liquid light, as you become extremely relaxed and ever so horny. Take too much, however, and you’ll puke your guts right out, or faint or fall into a shaman-like trance that borders on coma.

If you’re a depressive type of person, GBL will make you feel quite lovely-guaranteed. It has what is called a "bimodal response" in people, meaning that depressives will bounce off the walls and see God on it, while those of the non-depressed persuasion often become just pleasantly groggy and that’s about it-no big deal. The reason for all this is because, once ingested, both GBL and Butanediol are converted into a substance the body already produces naturally, called gamma-hydroxybutyrate, or ghb. The usual practice of those who ordered GBL was to boil and mix 135mL of it with 63 or 91 grams of a strong alkaline salt, like sodium or potassium hyrdoxide, and then in fifteen minutes or less they would have pure ghb, a simple carbohydrate, sometimes called a neurotransmitter, that is present in every cell in every body on this earth. It helps to lift the mood, numb pain, make one dreamy and blissed. Those happy times it gives you will burn in your memory years later, like a luring light, in exactly the way some happy day from your past is never forgotten. There are traceable amounts of ghb and its analogs in every meat on your supermarket’s shelves and in plastic products everywhere. The owners of all grocery chains are violating the law right now.

SEE: http://www.ceri.com/ghb-comm.htm

READ: "GHB: The Natural Mood Enhancer," by Ward Dean, M.D., John Morgenthaler and Steven Wm. Fowkes. Smart Publications.

It is found throughout the bodies and brains of Asa Hutchinson and every DEA agent who seized the owners of those web sites. Legally, we could find some pissed off ghb-fan to make a citizen’s arrest on them. Its illegal analogs were in the bulletproof vests they were wearing. It is everywhere and it is futile to try to outlaw the chemicals of nature. It is impossible. Learn enough organic chemistry, and you’ll be able to make ghb from an oak leaf. There are infinite chemicals and infinite varieties thereof. That one chemical they went after is one of many that will give you what you desire, should you have the visionary kind of mind it takes to see how these drug laws are futile in their efforts to outlaw worlds that are eternal. Learn, and then go for it.

Get what you desire. It is your right.

"The Internet is no longer a safe haven for drug dealers," said John Ashcroft, giving the label of date rape drug to this substance the body creates because the body finds it essential, "Our campuses, our neighborhoods and our communities are safer for young women because cyberspace just got more dangerous for drug traffickers."

Well, a short term dent which has probably already repaired itself is all Operation Webslinger has done, I’m afraid. Just as laws against weed and opium failingly attempt to restrict the vast worlds of mother nature, botany-worlds that were given to us by forces greater than the DEA; all plants are rightfully ours-this Operation Webslinger will do nothing to restrict the world of chemistry. When it comes to the infinite worlds of mother nature and her formulas of chemistry, there is always a way to find what you want, what you need, what is supposed to be yours. You cannot stop what can’t be stopped.

Legally, they should be arresting themselves, instead of using our tax money to investigate them for two years-over a substance the body creates because the body finds it essential. It is natural and necessary for survival, like Vitamin D is, and has hundreds of uses, like hemp. Made by the body and for the body, like estrogen, melatonin, DHEA, arginine, carnitine, Vitamin D, glutamine, bile and blood. We could not function without this thing they’re calling a date rape drug, and we sure as hell wouldn’t ever be happy. Look at the dark mood around America now. We need more of this stuff.

II: THE MINISTER OF DATE RAPE

Here are some of the sites that were taken down:

www.pelchatlabs.com

http://www.blueraine.homepage.com/

http://www.angelfire.com/ar/lactone/

I think there is a fourth one, but I couldn’t find it. You get the feeling that federal forces are illegally fucking around with them, in the way some no longer work, and some work only sometimes. Their owners aren’t available to fix them right now. Especially suspicious is the first site, run by a man named Daniel Pelchat, of Canada, who was The King Of Them All, The Emperor Of Happiness, accused quite rightly by the feds of being the biggest trafficker of internet GBL on this planet. Suspicious thing about his site is that it is the page where he criticizes America’s drug laws that most often will no longer load when you click on ‘Americans,’ on the left. Apologizing, some time ago, that his US customers were having their orders seized, he says,

ProG

"Be assured that I'm really sorry for the situation and that I'm working hard to find a solution for the over protected (by their government. Here we call it a "hen mother") American people. One thing is sure is that I can't do it myself anymore cause I had reports that they (FDA, Customs, DEA...) want me. I've been advised by the federal police of my country two years ago to avoid just thinking of going to the USA. "Your trip will be longer than what you wanted". It's sad cause there are the nicest and (warmer than here) places to climb in New Hampshire and New York. It's a tradition for the rock climbers of my area to drive all night to go rock climb."

The "solution" Pelchat found was to create dummy companies through which he sold what he called "cement solvent solution" and "nail enamel remover," which were both just fancy names for none other than the outlawed Gamma-butyrolactone. His site is supposed to appear, for any feds who happen to go there, as a law-abiding place to buy innocent cleaning solutions-but there Pelchat goes, talking all over it about how great ghb is, and there he goes openly giving advice for fooling the postal inspectors if they question you about your order. You can hear that medicine working through him throughout that site, like in the disjointed wording of his happy, hopeful sentences. It makes you innocent and too joyous to think that anything evil will come to you, to think that people will come and attack you for something you see as good and necessary. He also has a ghb info site, here: http://chemsuppliers.com/ghb_info/

"Unfortunately the addiction section is gone. The most recent backup was not so recent… That part was really important to me cause there was a time when it was documented everywhere that becoming addicted was impossible to get addicted to it. So several people tried to take it all day long for months (like me for one of my vacation on a summer, but what a vacation!). I was not so happy when I came back at work the first day…"

Like www.Erowid.org, Pelchat’s info site is, interestingly, more balanced and fair than those you’ll see from the DEA and friends. He and Erowid will give you both the pro and the con-as opposed to the half-truths of just con. Unfortunately, he was just too eager to tell people everything, as if he’d found the way to joy and he refused not to share it.

Type "daniel pelchat" in the Google search box, click on "Groups," and you’ll see post after incriminating post from this guy who’s convinced that what he’s doing is righteous. It is a mission with him, it seems, to supply this simple carbohydrate/neurotransmitter to depressed and alcoholic people all over the world-whose bodies do not produce enough of it. It kills the craving for alcohol in part by occupying the same enzyme alcohol uses for digestion, and there are growing reports, primarily from European research, that it may kill the opium craving too. It can be a burning miracle for some, this nail enamel remover, just as human growth hormone can be to a child whose lack of it has kept him stunted.

The next phase of Operation Webslinger was to seize all pending orders that are surely still piling in daily to those sites. Let us the pray for the fools who don’t read the news, and for the poor folks desperate to receive their cleaning solutions. Let us pray for them because, instead of the postman, the DEA is going to be delivering their orders, and-ooops!-I’m on Pelchat’s customer list. I ordered the most magnificent nail enamel remover from him this past July, and now I’ve painted my nails the ghastly shade of Bitch Black #12, by Cover Girl, and I have no way to get this shit off me without polluting the environment. Pelchat’s potion was biodegradable. So safe you could drink it. I sent him another drugwar document I wrote on this subject, http://www.drugwar.com/pliquidlight.shtm, as well as emails discussing the uses and effects of his stuff, but-ooops!-it isn’t Mr. Pelchat who is reading all this now. When I turned on CNN on Sept. 19th, first thing I saw was his website spread out on a huge screen behind John Ashcroft and Asa Hutchinson. What followed were a few days of paranoia, but then what follows fear for me is always absolute rage. The drug laws have gotten so schizophrenically illogical these days that you better believe I’m going to write something to urge DrugWar's readers to help set them straight.

When you’ve started calling a carbohydrate a date rape drug, or even a "drug," it’s time for you to be attacked, changed, reformed, voted out of office, fired, laughed at, re-educated. We have in power the kind of mind that would say calcium is angel dust, and that has said pot will drive you insane and make you kill people. There is a new vision of drug laws that needs to be created. And it is the fans of this drugwar site I’m trying to inspire to help create it. You are the ones who are primed and willing, on the edge of your seats, ready to charge-and Activism, I’ve found, is a far better drug than Apathy. I have rage to sublimate into this article you’re reading; I want to make this your Reason Omega-the last reason you’ll ever need to leave your seats and help to make a change.

"What kill or rape people is not GHB. Ignorance(or misinformation) kills them and your government likes you that way.

Daniel"

III: THE ANTI-STATS

"Judi Clark, mother of Samantha Reid, joined Attorney General John Ashcorft and DEA Director Asa Hutchinson to announce the success of Operation Webslinger and to spread awareness of the dangers of GHB."- US Department of Justice

Don’t ever trust the politics of those who promote fear, or hear their words.

The fearmonger sees and knows only one, negative side to things, and so their "truths" are sadly composed of only partial truths and total lies. Whenever your leaders speak of people and things in demonizing terms, there are two truths behind their exaggerations, which you can always believe. One is that what they are striving to create with their words will also be evil and fearful. The other is that it is really these leaders themselves who are evil, fearful, and bad. The nature of the demonizers is, ipso facto, demonic. You’ll recognize them in the way they make you feel sick, when they appear and speak on your TV. For it’s the soul of the fearmonger, itself, that contains this same sickness you feel, and he/she will spread it to you and the world with every word and every action. If they’re in power, give them hell, protest them every time they act-because their actions always lead to conflict, division, war, death, strife-more sickness. Do not believe the ones who frame things as only evil-no pro, only con.

And whatever you do, don’t ever vote for these people.

Donahue did a report on Operation Webslinger the following week, which gave his viewers the entire panorama of arguments and issues the drug warriors use and promote. All I have to do is discuss this Donahue program, and then everything they’ve said, from heroin and weed to legalization and addiction, has also been discussed. First of all, I’ll have to call them "anti-druggies," instead, because the term "drug warrior" has always seemed to me like a silly attempt by them to sound powerful-like a kid who is pretending to be a superhero, to cover up the fact that he’s really small, weak, and horrified of the big wide world. This horror that haunts their innards rises up and taints their arguments, making them fearmongers instead of people with mature rationale or reliable knowledge. And in their assertions, you’ll always hear the use of two tools that the demonizer always uses. Tool one is that they’ll eclipse the full truth about a drug or issue by only showing the negative side of it, and insisting that this is the only truth to it. Tool two is their use of anti-stats. When one person dies in May from taking too much of something, but then the 7,000 other people who took it truly lived and loved it, the anti-druggie will only mention the one person that died, insisting this is the only truth there is to know about this drug. This is the anti-stat, and anti-druggies use them every time they make a commercial or speak in a forum. They never mention the number of people who lived and loved it because this number is always so much greater that it transforms their "truths" right into lies. The prohibitionist uses the anti-stat when he claims prohibition works by showing some 10% drop in pot use in July, for example. But the number of people still loving their weed is always greater than this so-called drop; the numbers never drop to zero and they always rise again, showing you that, no, prohibition doesn’t work. This vision of a drug free America is the product of a naïve child’s vision of the world, and the child is a creature that only sees what it wants to see.

So to give his viewers all the truth there is to know about ghb, Donahue did a program called "Date Rape Drugs and The Internet," which featured two people who knew someone who supposedly died from it, one lady who was date raped, and the saddest and most horrifying guest of all, Dr. Drew Pinsky of MTV fame. Visit his site to see the work of the demonizer, http://www.drdrew.com. Or even better, try http://www.projectghb.org/, sometime.

According to the fearmongers, it’s all bad, all these drugs are so, so, evil and bad. But Dr. Pinsky is less a doctor than he is someone who seeks out fame, and someone who gets paid to espouse these views. He’d lose his column in "USA Today," and the attention he so craves from the mainstream, if he didn’t say that ghb causes COMAS! SEIZURES! DEATH! AND THAT’S ALL IT DOES! You can trust the knowledge of a fame-starved doctor who gets paid to give a certain type of advice about as well as you can trust any demonizer out there. This is a doctor who hid from us the fact that Europeans are using this natural compound for depression, narcolepsy, and alcoholism. Donahue also reported a huge year by year rise in G’s consumption, which belies the demonizer’s claims that ALL IT DOES IS KILL AND RAPE! Where are these people who use it and love it? They weren’t on Donahue that night, but whereever the anti-stats are used, there is always a greater number of them.

Dr. Drew Pinsky

I could almost smell Dr. Drew’s dirty little secrets pouring out of my TV that night. Those who fear and demonize and see only bad are always full of nasty, forbidden things they’ve done, and hope no one ever finds out. Like Jimmy Swaggart. Some say an ad hominem attack is never valid, but it is the true character of a person that taints and builds all of their arguments. When you hear the anti-druggie promoting fear, anger, and prohibition, what you’re hearing are words describing how they really are inside. And there is nothing like a stabbing ad hominem attack to change the natures of these people for the better.

Donahue’s victim of date rape had been given exorbitant amounts of the stuff by her boss. You can go online and read death reports from this evil date rape drug, but they won’t explain the enormous amounts that a lot of these dead people ingested, and you would drop your load if I told you how tiny these death stats are. In an age with so much information it’s too hard to find statistics that agree. You can’t pinpoint one thing with a number when there’s so much going on. The nature of the fearmonger is so clearly revealed by the screams and mass hysteria they give to a substance whose varying death reports contain numbers like 44, 58, 79, 71-in the last decade…In the last decade…But you can’t trust statistics at all anymore for there’s just too many of them out there, they never reveal things like how much of something someone took before they died, and the numbers change constantly with the quickly-changing mood of the world. Don’t ever argue stats with someone; you’ll get caught in the number trap. Just ignore their stat spewing while you dive for their core. Show me someone who has to resort to blabbering a bunch of statistics when they argue, and I’ll show you someone with a mortal lack of truth and substance in their argument.

IV: NEW VISION

Too much Tylenol will give you liver failure, too much fat will also kill you, too much selenium will toxify you, too much Vitamin C will give you diarrhea. Too much of anything knocks the body off kilter, and the human physiology is something that must have balance. The demonizers make it sound like one drop of this chemical, that is already flowing through your body, will hurl you right into a coma, whereas too much of any pill out there is detrimental and often deadly-as is the mixing of many things, legal or not, with alcohol, whose involvement is another thing the demonizers hide when they recite their anti-stats. GHB with alcohol is like alcohol with Xanax; they have a compounding effect which will knock you on your ass. And you can read about alcohol’s presence in online reports of one ghb death case after another. Alcohol is the number one date rape drug that has ever existed. And it’s legal. Here’s a good place to compare its stats to those of G:
http://www.disinfo.com/pages/article/id1430/pg1

A new vision of America’s drug laws would have to include fairer legalities across the board. Laws where one monster killer gets legal status, where a questionable one does not, create a country of conflict and illogic, where people have to rebel to make it fairer and saner. You get more deaths from a goddamn happy meal in one year than you’ve gotten, allegedly, from ghb in the last fucking decade. Laws like this have to be broken as often as possible-and ultimately changed. Consider it an act of civil disobedience.

It was the boss of this lady, on Donahue, who did the date raping here. The substance he used is not to blame. She told the story of how she wound on a curbside hallucinating. "Hallucinating??!!" screamed Donahue, as if this was a bad thing, to be in that visionary state where all creators go in order to create something great. There would be no works of great art, politics, etc., if it weren’t for the mind’s power to hallucinate. And we are in dire need of greater lawmakers, who have this power to create new visions.

She told of how, on the curbside, she heard strange sounds coming from nowhere, and I’ve heard those sounds before-they were warnings from her own mind. Too much had wrapped her in its thick blanket of undeniable sleep, where she was raped by her boss, and she woke up and ran when it metabolized. It put such a shield around her nerves that she felt no terror, though she was sitting on a curbside hallucinating. She was probably seeing the those swimmy blue lights, as well. Those fairy lights that will flicker, shimmer, fly before your eyes.

I’ve been in that lost world she was in when I’ve also been given too much-by none other than myself. But I’m the one who put myself there, not the G, just as it is the suicide who kills himself; the hemlock isn’t responsible. If you want to cure what you see as a problem, you will have to treat the suicide because if you outlaw the hemlock, the suicide will find another way-or just buy illegal hemlock off the black market.

The other two guests on Donahue had someone they loved who had died, and I have been there, too, and felt the same sad way. I don’t even care what the death reports say killed the friend and son of those two, but, in the girl’s case it is the fault of the guy named Victor who drugged them with far too much of it-not the drug.

I read three reports on the death of Samantha Reid, over whom Clinton signed the Date Rape Prevention Drug Act, when her friends drugged her drink in ’99. There was no alcohol involved in her case, from what I could find, 'til I realized this was a ridiculous search. What is important is that she died. She was beautiful, and responsibility need be applied to the friends who did this. However the bill applies blame to an inanimate thing with no power to murder, as if a killer stabbed someone and tried to blame the knife. You can read about her here, but try to show some respect by not laughing at the childishly demonized name of the site
http://www.ghbkills.com.

Leave Samantha out of this. She is innocent. What I’m criticizing is the slant of such sites, and such laws. In this one, all the blame for her death goes on ghb, and not on the friends who slipped her drink with it. To scream, "Drugs kill!" is to blame some inanimate thing for death and dismay. This keeps us humans from growing wiser, via the lessons of fault and blame. Laws like this are like the rule against touching the stove, when you were a baby. So too these drug laws act to freeze us in this frightened baby’s frame of mind, giving rise to the illogical, fearful cries of all the demonizers, who make their laws with the idea in mind that we are weak and the stove more powerful. It is those rebels among you who dare to reach up and touch the stove to whom I’m writing this piece.

I have been to the places those Donahue guests have been before, and I have learned my lesson, like during that "9-Day Yule Trip" I had over Christmas. My nail enamel remover finally arrived in the mail, and it had shattered my autumn depression completely, within one hour. A rush of lava geysering up from your balls is what it feels like, and I wanted all I could get of this feeling I hadn’t had in so long. I heard those same hallucinations she heard on the curbside, voices from my own mind that were warning me that I was taking too much. But with the hunger of someone sad, I kept drinking and drinking and the next thing there was, was me waking up on the den floor. There was vomit around the trashcan, and I looked in the halltree mirror, and between my eyes is the glaring smash of a bruise, and my lower lip is fat now and there’s a trail of dried blood all down my chin and all over my shirt, but there was no memory that would come to tell me when I passed out, or what I had slammed my face against-only that I’d vomited two or three times.

I have to learn. I have to grow. This was my responsibility. This was my lesson. The law I broke to make this stuff prevents the people in this country from learning and growing up. I recall how great I felt. My skin was flushed with warmth and color. My eyes were so white and so wide, like I had just fallen in love. The medicine was working and my wounds had no pain. The power of the medicine earned my instant respect. It is my life and my responsibility to learn these lessons I must learn, lessons about control and moderation.

But laws that inhibit your growth by saying you are weaker than some drug, force a country whose people in turn stay weak, immature, immoderate, and out of control--children. There is no law that has the right to tell you what you can or can’t put in your body. This is a personal invasion, by the government, upon your mind. This is not a law but the rule of a parent, a parent who thinks all of you are nothing but 3-year-old children.

"Fuck the law. Smoke pot anyway," says Ed Forchion, the New Jersey Weedman.

And I agree with this.

I think of his wise philosophy as civil disobedience.

I have a right, I’ll find a way. I’m an adult, Who has a brain.

And I will drink again the nail enamel remover of the gods.

V: THE FROZEN DREAM

Go here, and watch the video of Tony, a guy who has done too much ghb: http://www.techtv.com/cybercrime/viceonline/story/0,23008,3342926,00.html.
I hope they fixed it, and you can see the picture with the sound. I complained twice and they said to turn off your firewall before watching it. But this bullshit advice didn’t work. I’ll be playing it for you with what I write about it, anyhow. Click on "GHB Online, Part1," on the right, and immediately you should see poor Tony and hear the fearmongering narrator saying it’s so, so sad; it’s all so bad. Tony has taken a tad too much and there he is stumbling about, unsure of where’s he’s at, his gaze turned inwards onto himself. Europe is using this stuff to great success, but, over here, it’s so, so sad; oh, my god, it’s so, so bad; it’s all so bad-despite the many over here who brave the illegalities of it because it blasts the night of depression out of their minds. I am one of them. And if just one person stands as an exception to a theory-then all those demonic theories have officially been proven false.

Demonizing the visionary state-
Drug War

The demonizer works to hide the whole truth from you because it seems to be some unconscious goal of theirs to stay on top and keep you stupid. Every word and every action is designed to find power over you. You could call it a ‘Superiority Complex’ that they suffer, and the only cure is for you to condescend to them and defy them at every turn.

It looks so terrible and horrendous to anyone with no vision to see poor Tony with his eyes half-shut, muttering bits of babble here and there. But I see a new vision here that comes from humanity’s most ancient. There are those who have looked like Tony many times since humans have walked the planet. The shamans of South America, floating on Ayahuasca, and various tribes from long ago through now with peyote and mushrooms, and Christians at churches which allow unbridled celebrations of God.

They’ve all been in this sacred dream state that Tony is in, where your eyes are half-closed, where you may faint with the power, where reality has given way to the real reality and that universal spirit is blasting into you and shattering your ego. The upper parts of your mind switch off, like Jesus and friends drunk on divine wine at that wedding in The Bible.

There’s Tony, gone from this world like a magic-man seeing visions. I have been there, too, and he is indeed within what they have called "the sacred trance." I know that all that Tony can hear is the loud sigh of peace. It’s where the wind begins to blow, and it blows through me. "Here I am," I kept repeating once, "Or so it seems. I am trapped within. The frozen dream."

Right after those few seconds of Tony’s unwitting performance, they show a bottle of that exact stuff from Pelchat I got this past July, but Tony went to jail after this video was made. It seems he had trouble with taking too much of it. Not a wise thing-but, fuck what those childish laws say-this was his divine and personal right.

To recoil in horror, like the fearmonger, at the sight of this thing is the act of one who does not know the all-fulfilling unity with being. This is no "drug." This has a natural, non-toxic feeling that would never come from a "drug." This is where the Christian faints with spiritual ecstasy. This is perfection at its best. This stuff belongs inside of me. I am here. Or so it seems. I’m trapped within. The frozen dream. The wind begins to blow and it blows through me.

The wind begins to blow and it blows through me.

Since there were humans, this sacred state is something humans have strived to reach. And no laws will ever stop a quest that’s built into our nature. Only the visionary can understand this drive to go higher; however, most who make the drug laws aren’t of this breed. First you need the power to hallucinate before you see that no little people, with little rules, in one little speck of time, will ever end the human quest to find the sacred state of mind.

Inlay from the Soundbox Harp of Ur, c.3000 BC: “On meeting Gilgamesh as he searched for the land of the magical fruit trees, the scorpion-man says to his wife, ‘The body of him who has come to us is flesh of the gods.’"- Drug War

To attempt the prohibition of chemistry, mother nature, an ancient human drive, is to try to stop sex, the Jewish race, homosexuality, the consumption of wine. These movements that have tried to stop these things that are endemic, eternal, stronger, countless years more ancient, have only served to hurt people in their futile, failing tries.

You cannot stop what can’t be stopped. You cannot stop what can’t be stopped. It is my right to grow my weed. Decreed by nature. Not the law.

It is my right to drink the nail enamel remover of the gods.