Bible belt faces heroin

[Countryford]

I see nothing so wonderful about todays "reality" though.

I didn't say it was wonderful, but it isn't terrible either.
I deal with asshole people too, but at the end of the day, I go home to my husband and enjoy our life.

[BlueStreak]

I still love life and see no reason to totally give up.....

But, it does get harder every day. I no longer love my country as much as I once did, I can tell you that. I used to think we we're the sharpest people in the world. Then, I went out and saw the rest of the world. The rose colored glasses are gone.

Dave

[piece-itpete]

Originally Posted by merrylander

It seems that the latest problem is the 'manufactured' maijuana substitutes. On the news last night the police were called because this couple were passed out in the front seat and there was an 8 month old baby in the back seat. Apparently they had been smoking one of the made up ones.

Never could understand why people wanted to fry their brains on drugs. Hate drugs of most any kind as they all have side effects. Bugs me that I will be using eye drops now because of this damn glaucoma.

I happen to know some of those drugs are based on Damiana extract, plant based (among other things). When I was a teen me and a friend chewed a bunch of the root of that plant. It's not like pot - it's a hallucinogen. That fake stuff is bad, bad.

Originally Posted by BlueStreak

What gets me about any nasty drug like bath salts or krokodil, or black tar heroin.........

.....they keep on doing it after it has turned them into violent face ripping killers or even eaten flesh off of their bones. Can anything be more evil that that?

Dave

Hey, don't knock face flesh till you've tried it.



Pete

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

I happen to know some of those drugs are based on Damiana extract, plant based (among other things). When I was a teen me and a friend chewed a bunch of the root of that plant. It's not like pot - it's a hallucinogen. That fake stuff is bad, bad.



Hey, don't knock face flesh till you've tried it.



Pete

No thanks, I'm good. I prefer my meat properly cooked and non-human.

Seriously, how can a 25 year old, toothless crack addict who looks like she's 90, seriously think it's alright to go on they way she has been? Because the drug rots her brain and the crowd she runs with laughs it off. Evil, pure and simple.

I'm a guy who smoked reefer in my earlier days and even experimented with some of the more powerful stuff, powder cocaine and LSD in my youth, a lot of my generation did. But, as I recall, even then, I quickly came to see what the regular users of the "more powerful stuff" all too often became. A few of my closest friends from that time are dead. One is struggling with permanent brain damage.

No thanks, I'll pass.

Now, I scarcely even imbibe alcohol. A six pack lasts me months.

Dave

[piece-itpete]

It's easy to glamorize those days, but the fact was we were pretty messed up or we wouldn't have done it, my take.

Pete

[merrylander]

Guess I was a generation ahead as the worst thing we smoked was tobacco. Drank a little 'shine and Quebec hard cider, that was it.

[BlueStreak]

Ummmm........

I tend to think we were set up pretty good by the WW2 generation and could have had it made. But, instead, we chose the wrong path. The path of taking our Soma* regularly and trusting wolves in government, finance and industry to be nice to us.

Naïve. That's what we were, Pete.

Dave

(*Soma, the drug widely prescribed in Huxleys, "Brave New World".)

[Pio1980]

Originally Posted by noonereal

I though it started with Rush Limbaugh.

That there's another mind rotting drug of choice popular hereabouts.

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[Dondilion]

I am glad to notice that in the inner city of NY crack has become a no no.

Call somebody a "Crackhead" and it might start a fight.

Once crack was the rage here. I guess having observed the damage through
the time of crack caused the inner city population, especially the blacks
to give it up.

Plus after a while no one wanted to sell crack....long, long sentences for crack dealers.

[MrPots]

Originally Posted by BlueStreak

No thanks, I'm good. I prefer my meat properly cooked and non-human.

Seriously, how can a 25 year old, toothless crack addict who looks like she's 90, seriously think it's alright to go on they way she has been? Because the drug rots her brain and the crowd she runs with laughs it off. Evil, pure and simple.

I'm a guy who smoked reefer in my earlier days and even experimented with some of the more powerful stuff, powder cocaine and LSD in my youth, a lot of my generation did. But, as I recall, even then, I quickly came to see what the regular users of the "more powerful stuff" all too often became. A few of my closest friends from that time are dead. One is struggling with permanent brain damage.

No thanks, I'll pass.

Now, I scarcely even imbibe alcohol. A six pack lasts me months.

Dave

I tried it all too, well mostly all. The 70's and 80's were pretty fun and I have no regrets. I only did cocaine once, and that one time made me want to do it again so I left it alone. Never did heroin or any "shootin' up" The acid was fun, so were the shrooms and various speeders. I've smoked pot most of my life off and on. Rarely more than a toke or two at a time. But I'm responsible with it, same with the drink. No driving or during work. Most people are. Should something be banned because some folks abuse it? If so ban pretty much everything.