Hi, Pat -
Again, I'd like to compliment you on that great perception you had about DMSO.
I began some research on the subject, and found a lot of references to what you might call 'a mild state of paranoia' about the substance.
I started out with a search using the keywords "DMSO" and "sixties".
Try it. Very interesting...Ken Kesey, the Grateful Dead, the CIA, and more.
I need to research this further, but I am even more persuaded that you hit the nail right on the head with your comment.
Every search I do only confirms that there was (in both Canada and the States) considerable scepticism about the substance.
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I tried a little experiment. Last night, after work, I went to my local drug store, and attempted to order some DMSO.
Well!
"What do you want it for?" Squinty-eyed suspicion.
"I'm going to use it with Tea Tree Oil for toe fungus."
"Have you tried prescription drugs?"
"Yeah. They didn't work."
"DMSO is very bad for your liver, you know."
"No, it's not. I've researched it pretty carefully."
"They don't make it any more, I don't think."
"No, I think they do. You can get it in the States..."
Anyway, after about 15 minutes, where everybody huddled over the compendium at the back, it turned out that it was still possible to get some. The pharmacist even copied the page for me.
I had to point out to her that the liver effects that she was claiming occurred in people who were receiving DMSO intravenously, and that the effects were negligible.
I got the impression she would rather sell me a bottle of nitroglycerine, than DMSO.
Anyway, tomorrow night, I can pick up my DMSO.
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Pat, I think a possible subtext to this is that we have not realized the extent to which REK's thinking may have gone against the establishment grain: disturbed "conventional" thinking.
It is possible that with both Pennsaid and WF10, she and DMX have been bucking the establishment, big - time.
This would be a much better explanation for the consistent delay and bureaucratic BS that DMX has faced, than the possibility of corruption. It seems much more likely (and frankly, slightly more palatable).
[Mind you, it still doesn't explain HC leaking the negative results, twice. That is pure corruption.]
Good stuff, Pat! More to come.
Regards,
Jim |
