Talk:Chasing the dragon

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Contents 1 Additions 2 Reason for anonymity 3 Heroin Legal in Netherlands? 4 Purpose? 5 Needs total revision 6 Chinese Slaves?

[edit] Additions

There is also a popularly covered song called chase the dragon. I've got no idea who wrote it but I know the machine gun fellatio version charted in Australia.

[edit] Reason for anonymity

I added the bit about efficiency from personal experience. Discretion seems obvious. You just have to take my word for it. --196.217.110.121 00:05, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Heroin Legal in Netherlands?

Isn't this complete BS? Marijuana isn't technically legalised in the Netherlands, and since the Dutch policy differentiates between soft and hard drugs, there is no way in hell that Heroin would be legal there under the current system. I'll delete this crap. Dave Beta 16:21, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Purpose?

Why give extended details on the techniques of inhalation, or make emphasis on this method being "safer"? I will edit this into encyclopedic neutrality if nobody can describe the reasoning. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 205.144.218.66 (talk) 07:17, 25 December 2006 (UTC).

[edit] Needs total revision

This article is completely off. Aside from the fallacies such as "Though it requires more skill, "chasing the dragon" is safer than injecting heroin", the entire premise of this article is incorrect. Chasing the dragon refers to chasing your first high. It may have originated as a term to smoke opium, but the modern term encompasses much more. The quest to obtain that same celestial feeling you got the first time, which you'll never get because of experience, expectations, tolerance, etc. The song lyrics referenced imply this, especialy these:

"You're chasing the dragon, you're chasing the high. I bird with one whing who's still trying to fly"

You can chase all you want, but you'll never catch the dragon"

and this link agrees:http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=chasing+the+dragon

—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 67.161.150.42 (talk) 22:15, 2 February 2007 (UTC).67.161.150.42 22:16, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

I agree, "Chasing the dragon" has become a common term for continuing drug use in an attempt to receive the same high as the initial exposure to the drug. I've heard this explanation many times before & I think it should be cited in this article. Nagelfar 20:58, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

Premise? Being an encyclopedia, the "premise" is clearly definitive: the content distinguishes smoking heroin from other methods, etc. This is how I learned the term in the first place. I agree that there is some twaddle here though. Re Popular References, I seem to have unleashed a serpent. Yours, Mashford 01:15, 17 May 2007 (UTC) (original author)

And now all the "Popular References" are gone, with nary an explanation. Hmm. Mashford 00:41, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Chinese Slaves?

What is this about Westerners keeping Chinese slaves??? What kind of alternate history is that? The entire section is historically inaccurate and rambling. I'm going to remove that section. I think at least a few of the people who contributed to this article were "chasing the dragon" at the time! Udibi (talk) 01:49, 7 February 2008 (UTC)