Crystal Meth.... The new weed

[VaticanAssassin]

Weed is all but legal in Ca.
Go pot heads!!!

One side effect is it has all but destroyed the Mexican drug cartels weed profits.
Go USA drug effort!!!!

But............ rats will always find a way. I am seeing more and more reports of cheap and abundant crystal meth in Ca. It is not the new crack epidemic. But it is getting there by all accounts. People making that easy dollar pushing weed are not simply going to give it up and go straight. So I'm sure no one has their shocked face on right now.

 

[Aquagal]

Weed is all but legal in Ca.
Go pot heads!!!

One side effect is it has all but destroyed the Mexican drug cartels weed profits.
Go USA drug effort!!!!

But............ rats will always find a way. I am seeing more and more reports of cheap and abundant crystal meth in Ca. It is not the new crack epidemic. But it is getting there by all accounts. People making that easy dollar pushing weed are not simply going to give it up and go straight. So I'm sure no one has their shocked face on right now.

Meth fucks up the body like weed never could. Teeth, skin, all those sores. Ugh. Who knows what it does to the organs.

 

[BabblingBrooke]

It's heroin around here that's way on the rise. I have no clue about street costs, but the number of people hospitalized for heroin related reasons is increasing exponentially.

 

[bronzeage]

Crystal Meth is a self cleaning oven.

 

[hashtag45]

Meth fucks up the body like weed never could. Teeth, skin, all those sores. Ugh. Who knows what it does to the organs.

I never tried drugs, but still:
Aquagal is right. I'm not sure that the connection you (the op) are making is the right one, or what's the big deal about cannabis (if that's weed).

Other than turning people into lazy bums (decreasing motivation) it's perhaps the safest drug out there. Alcohol is much worse than that.

As to the crystal meth - different story. Moreover, the cheap crystal meth - v. dangerous. All those impurities and dose variations make it easier to od on.

 

[Killswitch1]

Say no.

 

[VaticanAssassin]

It's worse than crack in the way it fucks you up. Making this slightly more concerning than the "crack" days of the 80's. Not a ton of media on this yet, because it is a "hood" incident so far. The local street dealers getting his supply from the Mexicans is not dealing outside the ghetto. Let's face it: White boy hippies and hipsters are not going to be jumping from weed to meth anytime soon.

 

[BabblingBrooke]

I think his point is not the meth is similar to weed, but that dealers are going to deal. When pot is legal, they need a new product to sling.

 

[hashtag45]

you're right, actually. I didn't pick that up 1st time I read it.

 

[bronzeage]

It's worse than crack in the way it fucks you up. Making this slightly more concerning than the "crack" days of the 80's. Not a ton of media on this yet, because it is a "hood" incident so far. The local street dealers getting his supply from the Mexicans is not dealing outside the ghetto. Let's face it: White boy hippies and hipsters are not going to be jumping from weed to meth anytime soon.

Meth has always been a white boy's drug. It fits right into the truck driver moonshiner bootlegger culture.

 

[Aquagal]

Plus, the high is vastly different isn't it? I don't actually know what a meth high is but weed just mellows you out.

Every pot head I've known were into the idea that weed being organic wasn't physically trashing their body, opposed to what's meth made out of...Draino?

Eeewww gross.

 

[Killswitch1]

My girlfriend just met her connection in a parking lot for home grown tamales and avocado salsa.

lol

 

[Killswitch1]

Plus, the high is vastly different isn't it? I don't actually know what a meth high is but weed just mellows you out.

Every pot head I've known were into the idea that weed being organic wasn't physically trashing their body, opposed to what's meth made out of...Draino?

Eeewww gross.

We tried smoking banana peels when I was young. We heard you could get high.

 

[Aquagal]

My girlfriend just met her connection in a parking lot for home grown tamales and avocado salsa.

lol

Gettin' her fix!

 

[Killswitch1]

Gettin' her fix!

Like a drug deal. lol Some out of work lady who makes the bomb tamales I guess. Everyone raves about them.

 

[Aquagal]

We tried smoking banana peels when I was young. We heard you could get high.

I had a friend that smoked my catnip I'd grown. Fucker coughed for hours, til I told him what it was.

 

[VaticanAssassin]

Plus, the high is vastly different isn't it? I don't actually know what a meth high is but weed just mellows you out.

Every pot head I've known were into the idea that weed being organic wasn't physically trashing their body, opposed to what's meth made out of...Draino?

Eeewww gross.

Yep. Totally different. And most people get that. Which is why it's located in the ghettos and hoods. Advertising/ flooding the market/cheap prices create demand quickly were everyone wants to escape their lives....

 

[BabblingBrooke]

I need a tamale dealer.

 

[JohnnySavage]

I'm high on life.

 

[yossi]

It's heroin around here that's way on the rise. I have no clue about street costs, but the number of people hospitalized for heroin related reasons is increasing exponentially.

Heroin is big here as well - usually starts with pills and when they're out of money and desperate, heroin is a cheaper high. We've had quite a number of deaths from over doses.

 

[bronzeage]

Plus, the high is vastly different isn't it? I don't actually know what a meth high is but weed just mellows you out.

Every pot head I've known were into the idea that weed being organic wasn't physically trashing their body, opposed to what's meth made out of...Draino?

Eeewww gross.

Meth is a stimulant and a very effective one.

The problem with meth is that it causes permanent changes on brain structure(brain damage). After repeated exposure to meth, the brain is no longer capable of producing the neuro-chemicals which rewards the body for doing something good.

Imagine if an orgasm no longer felt good.

That is why meth addiction is nearly impossible to overcome. When you stop taking heroin or cocaine, after a while life can be sort of normal. Meth doesn't leave enough to get normal back. Food doesn't taste good, sex doesn't feel good, the only pleasure in life is more meth.

 

[Aquagal]

I need a tamale dealer.

This!

I've not found a good one since I moved here til a friend showed me how to, they're so tedious though!

WTF people putting gravy on a tamale?!

 

[VaticanAssassin]

I need a tamale dealer.

I have one... She also stops by once a week to clean the house.... She is the bomb!!!!

$20 for 2 dozen. Half red and chicken half pork and green.

 

[hashtag45]

Actually, makes sense.
Perhaps something similar happened with the Prohibition of alcohol. It was a field day for the gangsters, who made a lot of money selling it.
Nevertheless, when alcohol became legal, those gangsters turned their business towards other vices, like prostitution or weed.

Although I personally agree with the legalization of cannabis in the US, there's a bit of the Pandora's box there, as to what the scumbags would do next.

 

[pointless]

white people not doing meth. that's a fucking new one. what a moron.