Tweakers, tokers, hillbillys, and Mrs. Sanders
Martha calls a halt to meth lab posts, but it's important to note that today's tweaker is yesterday's toker and last week's moonshine hillbilly.
I submit:
My youthful indiscretions circa 1987 or so seem so innocent in the waning light of my memory. Nowadays, though, hitting the 7-11 to buy two cases of wooden matches so's you could chop the tips off, pack them in a medicine vial along with assorted nuts and bolts, and have yourself a pipe bomb to blow up Ole Man Willis' mailbox could land you in Git-mo.
Our kiddie assembly line never got this far, but one gent in Chattanooga, Tenn, bought 75,000 books of matches in a two-week period and tipped his lye-stained hand to the local cops: he's looking to be cooking up some blue-collar coke to make Jeff Foxworthy proud.
"Moonshiners when from moonshine to marijuana, from marijuana to meth," said top cop Ricky Smith. He contests that many meth manufacturers can directly trace their lineage to makers of illegal alcohol.
In the World Peace Herald's two-part investigation of the meth crisis, all the facts are present:
-- Truckers use it to keep alert whilst hauling Huggies
-- Ingredients include some of the same toxins as a Marlboro: lye, paint thinner camp fuel, ether, battery lithium
-- Meth was reportedly used by Japanese kamikaze pilots and U.S. soldiers during WWII to stay away while slaughtering each other.
But we often forget the upside, as Ms. Sanders will relate: "When I first started doing it, I was up for about four days, I could clean the house, take care of the kids, we had a spotless house, I did all the laundry, I ironed the curtains, I was like a supermom," said Charlotte Sanders.
Billy Hadden, 35, recovering super-tweaker, says, "It's like taking a 24-hour day and turning it into a 30-hour day."
If that's so Billy, why don't you help Charlotte around the house once in a while.
I submit:
My youthful indiscretions circa 1987 or so seem so innocent in the waning light of my memory. Nowadays, though, hitting the 7-11 to buy two cases of wooden matches so's you could chop the tips off, pack them in a medicine vial along with assorted nuts and bolts, and have yourself a pipe bomb to blow up Ole Man Willis' mailbox could land you in Git-mo.
Our kiddie assembly line never got this far, but one gent in Chattanooga, Tenn, bought 75,000 books of matches in a two-week period and tipped his lye-stained hand to the local cops: he's looking to be cooking up some blue-collar coke to make Jeff Foxworthy proud.
"Moonshiners when from moonshine to marijuana, from marijuana to meth," said top cop Ricky Smith. He contests that many meth manufacturers can directly trace their lineage to makers of illegal alcohol.
In the World Peace Herald's two-part investigation of the meth crisis, all the facts are present:
-- Truckers use it to keep alert whilst hauling Huggies
-- Ingredients include some of the same toxins as a Marlboro: lye, paint thinner camp fuel, ether, battery lithium
-- Meth was reportedly used by Japanese kamikaze pilots and U.S. soldiers during WWII to stay away while slaughtering each other.
But we often forget the upside, as Ms. Sanders will relate: "When I first started doing it, I was up for about four days, I could clean the house, take care of the kids, we had a spotless house, I did all the laundry, I ironed the curtains, I was like a supermom," said Charlotte Sanders.
Billy Hadden, 35, recovering super-tweaker, says, "It's like taking a 24-hour day and turning it into a 30-hour day."
If that's so Billy, why don't you help Charlotte around the house once in a while.
posted by kiddigit at 8:25 AM
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No more meth posts? What am I supposed to write about?
By the way, soldiers on go-pills is an ongoing phenomenon.
By the way, soldiers on go-pills is an ongoing phenomenon.
Go (dexidrine) pills are being replaced in the military by modafinil (Provigil/Alertec) which has all of the anti-fatigue power but with a buzz less than that of cafeine, and essentially no potential for abuse. Modafinil had the biggest off-label prescription rate until earlier this year when the FDA looking at Army research, finally approved it for "exessive sleepyness," and "shift work sleep disorder," which are both code for fatigue from too little sleep.
People high on pot are just not a problem compared to the meth- and booze-impaired. I wish they'd take all the time and money spent against pot and use it to do someting about crystal meth. Why the hell is late-night TV filled with PSAs complaining that pot lowers sperm count (so? exactly what problem is spreading that bit of information supposed to solve? it's a feature if you ask me) and not one message against meth, which is actually sending people to the morgue at increasing rates throughout the country? Is it because pot smokers vote Democrat and write letters to the editor and meth addicts and drunks vote Republican if they even vote at all? Arresting drunks, crack-heads, meth abusers, and coke snorters is a public service. Arresting pot smokers is a complete waste of time (and too tempting because they're so compliant.)
Apparently modafinil is also effective crave-removing therapy for cocaine and amphetamine abusers. Look it up on MEDLINE. So, the obvious solution is immediately apparent.
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People high on pot are just not a problem compared to the meth- and booze-impaired. I wish they'd take all the time and money spent against pot and use it to do someting about crystal meth. Why the hell is late-night TV filled with PSAs complaining that pot lowers sperm count (so? exactly what problem is spreading that bit of information supposed to solve? it's a feature if you ask me) and not one message against meth, which is actually sending people to the morgue at increasing rates throughout the country? Is it because pot smokers vote Democrat and write letters to the editor and meth addicts and drunks vote Republican if they even vote at all? Arresting drunks, crack-heads, meth abusers, and coke snorters is a public service. Arresting pot smokers is a complete waste of time (and too tempting because they're so compliant.)
Apparently modafinil is also effective crave-removing therapy for cocaine and amphetamine abusers. Look it up on MEDLINE. So, the obvious solution is immediately apparent.
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