Hope it's been at least as long since you kicked it, brother.
It's one on a long 'people told me it's bad shit, and everything I hear confirms it' list. Right near the top, along with juggling chain saws on a rope bridge or gargling with razor blades... or heroin.
It was actually a joke. Truth....I have tried it.
Someone offered me a "bump" at a bar, out west, like 2002. I'm easy coast, never seen meth. I thought I was offered coke. I snorted what was the tiniest line I had ever seen, thinking, wtf is this! I immediately realised why meth is nicknamed "glass". I was high for like a half hour, but couldn't sleep for 18hrs. I call that the "legs" of the drug.
Needless to say, I wasn't impressed. Down the road someone suggested I try smoking it. I will get high as f$k. So...there I am in the desert mountains, in a run down abandoned shack, smoking meth out of a light bulb. 3 of us smoked a couple grams and I was up for 2 days. The first 36 hrs. I was searching the side of a mountain for "pretty rocks". In truth, they did have a really nice turquoise rock indigenous to the area.
That was the last and final time. I'm glad I did it, just because I am down with some mind altering shit. But...when I would see these young kids, 18, 19, 20 yrs. old looking like the walking dead, with blisters all over their face, and blistered lips from not having the patience to exhale the first chemical hit, I decided it wasnt only not worth it but worth helping kids with a problem try to get their shit together.
I was running a restaurant at the time and only hired "tweaker" kids who wanted out of the game.
Peace