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This Is Your Brain on Meth: A 'Forest Fire' of Damage
NY Times ^ | July 20, 2004 | SANDRA BLAKESLEE

Posted on 07/19/2004 8:22:02 PM PDT by neverdem

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To: null and void; Servant of the 9
Now why would you ping me and not Swervie to this thread?
101 posted on 07/21/2004 6:14:52 AM PDT by sweetliberty ("A wise man's heart inclines him to the right, but a fool's heart to the left." (Eccl. 10:2))
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To: sweetliberty; Servant of the 9
Because there was some discussion about cleaning up Meth labs, and with your new job, I thought you might be able to contribute something.

Swervie, OTOH doesn't remember anything about it. See title...
102 posted on 07/21/2004 7:28:57 AM PDT by null and void (Middle East n. former name for the region commonly known as Oil Under Glass)
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To: neverdem
The first high-resolution M.R.I. study of methamphetamine addicts shows "a forest fire of brain damage,...

How can you tell? Junkies overwhelmingly started out Liberals. Maybe their brains always looked like that.

So9

103 posted on 07/21/2004 7:35:17 AM PDT by Servant of the 9 (Screwing the Inscrutable or is it Scruting the Inscrewable?)
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To: Oztrich Boy
Yet another reason to just say no

Who needs a reason. Drug use is against the Law, should that not be the sufficient and the only reason for any behavioural decision?

Then if you had lived in the 1920s you would have refused to drink any alcoholic beverage, but would have smoked marijuahana, because that is what was the law at the time?

So9

104 posted on 07/21/2004 7:42:40 AM PDT by Servant of the 9 (Screwing the Inscrutable or is it Scruting the Inscrewable?)
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To: neverdem

Meth makers and dealers need to be executed after a fair trial.


105 posted on 07/21/2004 7:45:47 AM PDT by dennisw (Once is Happenstance. Twice is Coincidence. The third time is Enemy action. - Ian Fleming)
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To: sweetliberty; null and void
Now why would you ping me and not Swervie to this thread?

Because you are at risk due to the people you deal with every day, whereas I am a retired veteran of the 60s and have evolved past sex, drugs and rock & roll.

And because the contact high just from living where he does, has given Nully a brain MRI that looks like the schematic for a loofa.

So9

106 posted on 07/21/2004 7:48:05 AM PDT by Servant of the 9 (Screwing the Inscrutable or is it Scruting the Inscrewable?)
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To: Servant of the 9

*ouch*


107 posted on 07/21/2004 7:53:01 AM PDT by null and void (Middle East n. former name for the region commonly known as Oil Under Glass)
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To: RonHolzwarth
PS: Maybe should have ended that posting with: What would happen to you if you had TWENTY or THIRTY drinks EVERY night, for the last TEN YEARS?

Nah, I'm fine, give me the keys.

108 posted on 07/21/2004 8:01:22 AM PDT by Johassen (Veritas Vincit)
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To: null and void; Servant of the 9
"Because there was some discussion about cleaning up Meth labs, and with your new job, I thought you might be able to contribute something."

Oh. It was early.

"Swervie, OTOH doesn't remember anything about it. See title..."

ROTFL. Good point.

109 posted on 07/21/2004 8:33:32 AM PDT by sweetliberty ("A wise man's heart inclines him to the right, but a fool's heart to the left." (Eccl. 10:2))
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To: Servant of the 9; null and void
"Because you are at risk due to the people you deal with every day"

Nice to know my friends are concerned about me. *Smooch*

"And because the contact high just from living where he does, has given Nully a brain MRI that looks like the schematic for a loofa."

He does have a point, Nully.

110 posted on 07/21/2004 8:35:44 AM PDT by sweetliberty ("A wise man's heart inclines him to the right, but a fool's heart to the left." (Eccl. 10:2))
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To: neverdem
I assume a speedfreak is a tweaker.

Yes. Speed affects the entire body. When a person's body has used up most of the drug, their muscles begin to spasm, or twitch.

In Austin they call them tweekers or crack whores.

111 posted on 07/21/2004 8:50:59 AM PDT by MamaTexan (Liberals are just communists in metro-sexual clothing)
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According to the 2000 census, at least 27% of kids are being raised by grandparents. Drugs being the primary reason.

Now this is a fascinating statistic. Meth posession is a crime, punishable by imprisonmemt. Selling meth is also a crime punishable by imprisonment. Yet, close to 1/3 of families at the early childbearing stages are involved with drugs in some form.

It is easy to spot a tweaker. They are easily identified as they exhibit physiological and behavioral characteristics. They are nearly ubiquitous in the seedier parts of town. Hardly a day goes by that I don't see at least one tweaker at the local supermarket or shopping mall. And I have known people who used meth, had their kids raised by grandparents, and who ultimately died from meth use, in spite of the fact that meth use is illegal. If it is so easy to spot a tweaker, and amphetamine use is illegal, why don't tweakers get arrested more often?

Laws are tools of liberals to make themselves feel like they are doing something about problems. They are more concerned with making laws than enforcing them. Conservatives are supposed to enforce the laws that liberals make. The main problem, as I see it, in the war on drugs, is that liberals make laws to change people's behavior, and then make exceptions to those laws to prevent them from being effectively enforced. That's why lawyers are liberals. Conservatives then want what the laws have promised, and so try to enforce them, and apply the penalties that the laws proscribe.

In my opinion, we have to do one of two things: Either make the penalties talibanian, as in death for meth sellers on the first offense, and enforce them without exception, or we do away with the drug laws and the piecemeal enforcement that we get now, and treat drug abuse for what it is, a medical condition.

112 posted on 07/21/2004 9:33:46 AM PDT by webheart
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