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Topic: legalize meth??
AdventureBegins's photo
Fri 05/01/09 08:06 AM




Erowid is biased.


How? So far you all seem to get your facts from a mystical source that I can't seem to find aside from a Youtube video...and we all know Youtube is the basis of all fact...

Try looking in a book. Encylopedia is where I found some information about meth. It turns out that congress allowed the cia to experiment with it back in the past. (imagine that)

Congress also decided to make the drug illegal after that.

Internet is only as good as the information that has been placed in it.


I've researched most illicit drugs on my own, real research...you know? The kind where you actually leave the house and ask professionals, where you get out and learn from people that know more than you do about the given subject. I did this for years with meth, and marijuana alike.

Don't give advice to people you don't know...

I am not sure if this was ment as an insult or just in poor taste.

I mentioned one method I used to research. Other sources were also used (never assume you know all).

Advice... You know what they say about assuming.

Winx's photo
Fri 05/01/09 08:15 AM
Edited by Winx on Fri 05/01/09 08:19 AM




A interesting documentary about a girl who was on meth and strachted her arm down to the bone.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAuXfcjaLL4&feature=related


A one in a million thing. Doesn't happen often, more often than not they blow themselves up in their motel room or Winnebago.


Fear,

That's not a one in a million thing.noway




It is, it happens so rare that you only see maybe one or two documented cases. Hell, I can't even find one and I Googled it. I don't doubt the validity of the video posted, all I am saying is it happens very rarely. Most injuries or deaths that occur because of meth are typically accidental or suicides, on rare occasion someone will scratch their arm off...however it is very rare and widely sparsed among the population of users (roughly 1.4 million people use meth). Number wise the documented cases are quite minimal.

I don't like meth, I've done meth and never really liked it. Yet millions of people are addicted to it, live it, breath it, and inject it daily...yet I cannot find one documented case of someone scratching their arm off...

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1448174 (Pretty sure they would have put it in here somewhere...)



Physiological Effects (Some)

Cracked lips (JIB sores), skin rashes or sores from scratching and itching.

http://www.crystalrecovery.com/Pages/FAQ.html


Heavy users may experience the feeling that bugs are "crawling" under their skin. The user can severely injure themselves by scratching, digging or cutting at their skin trying to get the imaginary bugs out of their skin.

http://www.nevamo.com/meth.htm



scttrbrain's photo
Fri 05/01/09 08:42 AM
Edited by scttrbrain on Fri 05/01/09 08:44 AM
Research is meaningless in meth or speed. It is a very dangerous drug. Research is not going to give you real insight. Only a user can do that.(or previous user)

Speed will do things to people and neighborhoods that you will never understand til you have been there.

I hae known people that would use a knife to cut out bugs or as they thought "ring worms", we told him there was nothing there. His son was scared to death he was going to come after him. Not to kill him but to cut out whatever it was he was seeing. They use to call it meth monsters, meth bugs. You see all kinds of things. They jump out in front of you while driving or walking. You are so jumpy and frighten so easily, that one will respond in freaky manners. Some will shoot at what they see and others will try and run over it.
They will absolutely scratch their skin off. They will have sores that get infected. They can pass that on to whom they touch. They get a smell that only meth users have.

A house can be torn up while looking for anything that may be a hiding spot that they (in their own mind) may have hid. Most times this is just sick thinking. I have seen the baseboards torn up, the walls torn out, the carpet pulled out. Vents pulled away,ceiling tiles torn out. Cars have been destroyed inside while looking.

I have seen beautiful people look 15, 20 years older while using.

People will stay up days and weeks at a time to keep from crashing all the while they are. It is inevitable. But, they will try anyway. Without sleep we all act wierd. But, a meth user will go beyond that.

I am against legalizing pot, but could live with that over meth.

Kat

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