Posted on 10/25/2005 10:10:26 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
You can scoff all you want, but this drug is insidious. My sister runs an alternative sentencing program for drug users (non-violent, not distributors) and she has seen the damage this can do. She estimates that 75% of her clients use meth, and so many have ruined lives that were going well. Some were professionals, tried this stuff, were hooked immediately, and lost everything before getting into her program. And it's not only the meth users who lose; their families do, as well.
I would love to see her teeth!
Who would EVER answer truthfully about using any kinds of drugs?
Surveys on a topic such as this are suspect from the start, IMO.
No offense, But I don't think you were looking
No offense, but I think I would have noticed them holding me at gunpoint, screaming about the devil, even if I wasn't looking.
Drugs like meth and crack are a pathology associated/linked to poverty. Idle hands being the devil's workshop etc. etc. Rural communities are now suffering the same pathologies as the ghettos. Figure out a way to solve the problem and you get to win a Nobel Prize.
I see, accuse another of criminal behavior because you don't like his opinions. "Thought police!! Thought police!! Arrest that man!!"
*laughing*
Not at all mate...I'm don't understand your agenda...and I don;t think you've witnessed the problem.
I do not understand why the government does this. Beyond the obvious protecting their own future thing. Which is pretty despicable.
I am aware that we are in 2005, not 1920-odd. But, that was when alcohol was prohibited, and this is when meth is prohibited. Are you misunderstanding me intentionally as some sort of debating tactic?
>>>So these maggots have a right to victimize me and mine(and oh yes they do...until I have them in from on my shotgun...which happened twice) >>>
Who said they have the right to victimize you? All I said is that PEOPLE do these things, the drugs don't. Shoot them for all I care. I don't think drugs make people do things they aren't prone to do in the first place, so do this world a favor next time you have them in front of your shotgun.
Meth isn't alcohol. There is no comparison.
Kind of like the "gun of choice" for criminals, which on any given day is either an assault weapon, a saturday night special, a machine gun, or a .50 caliber sniper rifle.
No. You Wouldn't.
Yeah, but the crap that's being sold on the street is contaminated by whatever the "cook" used to process it. There can be a lot of difference between pharmaceutical stuff and the black market variety, like Wild Turkey as compared to lead-contaminated moonshine.
Drugs like meth re-wire a person's brain. Things that were unthinkable for them a couple months become "just another day in the life..."
All I know is that Meth is the very worst drug I have ever seen, or imagined. Worse than alcohol, how it destroys people lives.
Okay, that's just silly because it implies all prohibitions against substances and behavior are equally bad just because they are prohibited. Society prohibits certain substances and behavior because they are dangerous, both to the user and to society at large.
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