Meth

[WilliamPitt]

[bobclark86]

1. In the last two years...

eight people from my high school have gotten busted for making meth (apparently, after a decade in the south and three years of Breaking Bad, my area finally jumped on the bandwagon). Yeah, it's fucked-up shit.

[Brigid]

2. Actually, I think that's a pretty good grapic.

A pretty good conceptualization of what meth does to people.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

3. and quickly, too. sad.

[hunter]

4. Saddest thing is addiction is a medical and social problem that shouldn't be difficult to deal with.

Meth addicts need a safe place of last resort other than prison or the mean streets.

Our's would be a much better world if they had access to legal amphetamines in a safe place to come down, even if they were contributing nothing to society, for the rest of their lives even. Let them harmlessly play video games in the shelter.



"No longer a danger to self or others" is a much better world than what we have now.

Every community ought to have a place where addicts of all sorts can come in for a soft, foam-on-the-runway landing. Crash and burn is never a good thing. Innocent people get hurt.

Some people are without hope, the drugs or alcohol or cigarettes will kill them. But punishment never improves the situation.

In a gentle society some people will escape their addiction, or at least find a place where they can remain somewhat functional.

An ex-meth-head, heroin, or nicotine addict on legal meds... who cares??? Slap a patch on them, give them legal e-cigs, gums, pills, whatever they need not to be jonesing for the illegal stuff.

There are interesting little old ladies with disintegrating bones taking doses of opiates that would leave me passed out in the gutter. More power to them.

Opiates and amphetamines are remarkably non-hazardous drugs compared to alcohol or nicotine, if only the source is legal and clean.

We could save the R2D2s who now become trashcans, even free them from their addictions, if we simply abandoned this stupid "war on drugs." It would take the illegal gangster and cop, spy vs.spy, profit out of the drug trade too.

[siligut]

5. I agree, but the prison for profit folks are addicted to the easy cash

All the science and research indicates that we need to treat addiction like a disease, and I recall but can't remember which, a country is doing just that and is very successful. But in the USA our prison for profit contingent has too much power.

[Kaleva]

6. +1

I believe marijuana ought to be legalized for use and sale and consumption of the harder drugs ought to be decriminalized. Those who are certified by a doctor to be addicted ought to be able to get a legal fix at designated, safe, clean places where treatment for the addiction is available for those who want it.