For some reason it's a club drug among the gay men in the Village. I've seen the posters on bus stands whenever I go there. Also, out at Stony Brook, some girls take it to lose weight. If they only see what some women look like after taking meth :( I know of one girl who has all sorts of neurological disorders,etc. because of a former meth addiction. It's a SICKENING drug.
Yeah, I've seen some nasty "before and after" photos. ....posted right here on FR, if I recall.
It's a SICKENING drug.
It is indeed, cyborg. The worst I've ever seen, by a longshot. And I've never understood the attraction of speed anyway. .....racing pulse, paranoia, elevated blood pressure. .....not exactly my idea of a good time.
I live in Chelsea. Nearly every payphone booth ad is a dire warning about "Crystal". Gay men go to huge "circuit parties" where they have Viagra in dishes like candies and Crystal Meth passed around for all-night, unprotected ("bareback") sex orgies. When the bill for all this comes due, it won't be pretty.
A recent thread here on FR had a series of before-and-after pictures of meth users. I've seen the decline of crack and/or meth users firsthand, and it's frightening, but seeing the difference side by side is still a stunning experience.
If we don't significantly stiffen the punishment, the escalation will continue. Someone suggested the death penalty, but you need not do that. You want to make huge reductions in not only these crimes, but all of them, overnight? PUT PRISONERS BACK TO WORK. For many of them now, prison is an acceptable way of life to them. Turn it back into a place people want to avoid at all costs, and crime will plummet overnight. It's rarely an issue, but I happen to believe we're in desperate need of prison reform in this country.
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yea... I met some women who have taken it to lose weight too... it really works, in extreme cases you can lose 30 pounds in a single weekend... but the big problem is that even one dose of the drug can permanently overload & destroy your body's ability to make endrophins. So you can -never- be "happy" again unless using meth... life will seem permanently slow & sluggish after that.