[dennisw]

Yeah baby!!!! Legalize it!!! Legalize such poison.

[dennisw]

"If you can make chocolate chip cookies, you can make meth," Schulz said.

Actually: If you can make a burrito or salsa you can make meth.

[Jim Noble]

Speed freaks have always been so boring!

Plus-ce-que ca change, plus-ce-que c'est la meme chose

[martin_fierro]

November, 1979 - January 1989

[Trampled by Lambs]

I'll never understand how this stuff gets so popular. I live in what was once known as the meth capitol of the world and you can see its effects everywhere.. This stuff has to be the nastiest crap out there.

MMMmm, a drug that won't let you sleep, causes your manhood to shrivel up like a dried mushroom and makes your teeth fall out. I gotta get me some of that!

[Randover]

"In Alexandria, Lt. Bill McKay, assistant jail administrator, often has to separate meth users from other inmates because of their hallucinations. "One of them was seeing Janet Reno all the time," McKay said."

YIKES! No expense should be spared to treat this poor person. No one deserves being haunted by Janet.

[Physicist]

You'd think from this article that there are no legitimate uses for amphetamines.

[Agnes Heep]

Looks to me as if this is a crime that's self-punishing.

[Bubba_Leroy]

"One of them was seeing Janet Reno all the time"

Lord, that's horrible. I think I'd have to kill myself.

[Lazamataz]

Meth is some extremely bad stuff. I heard of a fellow in Georgia who had been up for about a week on meth. He was driving with his girlfriend, with the daughter in the back seat. He reached down for his revolver and blew her brains onto the passenger-side window, in front of the daughter.

He had become paranoid that she was 'out to get him'.

He's up for a death-penalty murder case right now.

[ikka]

Sounds harsh and mean, but the answer is: no more govt assistance on health care, jobs, unemployment, whatever. You want to screw up your life, you do it on your dime, not taxpayer funds.

[txzman]

Another reason to own a gun.

[Mamzelle]

curious--why does it rot the teeth, and how does it do it so quickly?

ER personnel know these burns as a sudden epidemic of faulty car batteries that explode when the drivers try to jump the battery---all a lie, of course.

[Gritty]

This is ugly stuff.

The War On Drugs isn't the failure. These people are, and so are the rest of us if we let it go on unchecked.

But what do we do about them, and the havoc they raise not only to themselves but to others and society?

I think the answer is simple, and dennisw has hit on some of it. First, catch and execute the dealers and pushers. They are already too far gone to save. "Hang" them, as "hang" publicly in the town square with everybody watching, so the word gets out that this is serious.

Second - for the "users only" - they get a chance for rehab, even doing it on the public dime if they can't pay for it themselves. If they are successful and are not rearrested and convicted again within five years, fine. If not, hang them right along with dealers and pushers. They'll never recover and they are a toxic hazard to the rest of us.

It's harsh, but so is making everybody else live with the consequences of these intractable addictions. If education can't do the job, maybe fear can. If that doesn't do it, there remains only the "permanent" solution.

[fourdeuce82d]

Meth was smuggled from Taiwan and South Korea into Hawaii in the 1980s. By 1990, its presence had grown in the U.S. mainland

meth has been around and popular in various "waves" since the 60s.

[Hacksaw]

"These people are completely dangerous. They're different from any other person I've bought drugs from. Their aggression is above and beyond any other drug. There are more guns, more explosives, more booby traps in meth labs than in crack houses," the Martin County investigator said.

I thought that multiply banned MrLeRoy stated that alcohol is the only drug that causes agression. Looks like he was wrong again.

[Myrddin]

I was in a local computer surplus store when a couple female meth heads came in to rip off the place. They didn't park their vehicle directly in front of the store. It was 10 parking places away...out of view. One engaged the single clerk in a detailed conversation to get an internal modem for her laptop. While the clerk was occupied, the other woman grabbed a $600 deskside PC off the floor, slipped out the door and placed in her car. The one playing the "modem game" then left. Moments later, the clerk noticed the missing PC. I called it in to my wife at the local PD dispatch office with a description of the women. Two days later, they tried shoplifting at the local Dillard's department store. Security caught them. Their car was impounded. Inside was the PC and other stolen merchandise worth thousands of dollars. That solved a large number of local theft cases in one pass. Both are in prison again. The car was sold at auction.

The local PD officers take out a meth lab about every other week. Labs in houses will make the premises into a hazmat cleanup site. Often, they are burned as a fire department practice exercise and the land cleaned off. The perpertrator are not usually the property owners. A burn and scrape recovers some of their equity. They can always rebuild. The mobile homes are usually a total loss.

[Eva]

My husband was talking to WA state environmental officials, who told him that their statistics show that 80% of meth users get hooked on the first try. The drug is just highly addictive.

[Monty22]

""I've seen crystals on myself, like a little snowflake that comes through my pores," he said. He remembers thinking, "Whoa! Dope's coming out of my skin!""

I've seen some people with that, around their finger joints. Is that meth? White flakey stuff?

[small_l_libertarian]

...One of them was seeing Janet Reno all the time...

NOOOOOOOOOOO!