i think just about EVERYBODY would agree weed and alcohol are better than meth. both have some medicinal benefits. dont think mleth does....so ya....
Actually, no. The effect it is having on your state is more due to the level of illegality and the poor availability of a decent formulation. Which has nothing to do with the particular chemical, just the ability to make it a variety of crappy ways.
Len Bias was the 1st public death I ever heard of a coke head. I heard of speed freaks going on multiday jags and "cracking", but that was the small subset that would shoot it. That was after years of using, along with many of the peer group (school then work). While I'm sure people died or went into addictive death spirals, it was rare and isolated.
If a chemical like alcohol was introduced today it would immediately be illegal. Level of deaths and addiction is huge, actual death during withdrawal is MORE probable than heroin (but nothing beats the barbituates for death potential during withdrawal benzoes included in this) and socially accepted for the most part. I know "functional" alcoholics. They are fucked up people, the only reason we tolerate them is that it is legal NOW, and we had such a fucked up time in this country during prohibition (and are repeating it for pot), that it will not be made illegal today.
Check out the death rate and compare them.
http://www.drugwarfacts.org/cms/Causes_of_Death
Also, they are usually only assholes for a short while before they go to sleep, speed freaks annoy you all night.
In the old days, when we either ate it (desoxyns, yes, I had pharmaceutical meth, you poor wannabe bastard, oh sorry, a bit snippy, ooommmmmm), snorted the crystal (oh the lovely purple gray crystals), or watch other people skin pop it. Oh, oh, I allowed a needle into my skin once. Just once. And some of us, with a bit of knowledge could create it. And then people like me, with even less knowledge, would attempt to follow the recipe. Way way way many more steps than today's shake and bake. I should have blown up many times over. And I fucked up the hydrochloride bind, ONCE, ended up with a more yellow than purple crystal, and it had no effect when snorting. But it was INCREDIBLE when smoked. I TRIED to do it again. And failed. Each time after it I made regular meth. Oh well.
I bought a mouse to test the 1st batch on when I started. When correct, the HCL based on is water soluble, and when I gave it to the mouse (dosage? Who the fuck knows, let's just see if it survives) , the mouse shook a lot an ran around like crazy, and survived.
Then it ate it's way out of the box it was in and lived in my closet for 2 months. It would come out int he middle of the night and forage. It trapped itself in my bong, probably looking for water.
So yeah, sorry, did it.
Back to medicinal: Speed used to be for weight loss. That generation of speed freak housewives vacuuming until 4fuckingAM in the morning (thanks mom) survived pretty well. Smoking and/or shooting was not on their todo list, but popping the little pill was. And then they found out it aids in attention, study ability, and measurable mental capacity. Too much is bad, too often is bad, but then, what about the generation ADHD kids on it? It really does calm them down and let them interact with society. You got kids? I do. I KNOW the difference in a year of no meds, tears, crisis, inability to think, no hope, etc, and then, poof, oh, hi, how you doing?, sure, school was great today.
Also, I have a stack of chems to choose from at any given moment. A few years spent trading and accumulating will give someone quite a candy store to enjoy. A taste once every few weeks of most substances is quite reasonable, with addiction potential nil. Try to open up your horizons do less of any single chemical (or family), and you may find life gets better. Try to not to disparage and insult others for their choices, unless that particular person held you down and got you addicted for a few weeks.
And really, assuming my (or someone else's (Mr Educk, Canndo, etc) level of knowledge is usually a poor path to go and attempt to argue. These people are way ahead of most, and even if they have occasional life choices that I don't agree with or did not end up well, they speak with knowledge and a sense of personal rights and responsibilities This is not cookie cutter shit, you gotta actually think about each and every decision. Like life in general.
Ehh, so anyway, any other questions?