Tweekers

[glenncal1]

My only drugs of choice currently are guiness and tullamore dew (or Jamesons) but I was a teenager in the 70's. I just can't understand the meth explosion. Here in Colorado a once very respected former county sheriff has been arrested for trading meth for sex. The drug seems to be everywhere. Meth heads scare the heck out of me, especially since I have 2 daughters. People call me paranoid for carrying in places that you wouldn't normally worry about, but the tweekers don't seem to respect boundaries. I have no solutions except to protect myself and my loved ones. Rant over, I guess.

 

[writerinmo]

Meth is still very predominant here in the St. Louis area, but it seems that heroin is making a massive surge as the drug of choice in a lot of areas, there was even a case where a young girl overdosed at a party, one of the other partygoers drove her car to a local Urgent Care facility, parked it in the back corner of the let then left in a car driven by a couple other kids from the party... the girl was dead, it snowed that night and covered the windows of the car, it was nearly a week later when a police officer noticed the car and ran the plates. Been several overdoses of the junk and more and more of the busts seem to have large quantities of the stuff.

 

[jbull380]

Forget the drug problems. You do not get to choose the time, place or conditions of your gun fight. You should carry everywhere. Yes everywhere! Even at home, when your mowing the lawn, when you go check the mail even whe watching football on tv. Does anyone want to tell me when you don't need to carry? I bet I can find an example with a dead body to show you're wrong. It just comes down to how much risk you are ready to accept. You can be attacked anywhere at any time. Always be in condition yellow. You do not need to justify carrying a gun with me. My wife says I look really sexy in the shower with my black nylon belt and G26. Ha!

 

[truckemup97]

TPD arrested a woman in Wal-Mart yesterday for making meth in the store. She had been out of jail for a week. Apparently all the stuff you need to make meth is available in Wal-Mart.

 

[Stevie]

TPD arrested a woman in Wal-Mart yesterday for making meth in the store. She had been out of jail for a week. Apparently all the stuff you need to make meth is available in Wal-Mart.

I saw this on the local news..and the major news channels...

I use to live in a nice neighborhood in my local town..as the older folks died off..other folks moved in and some houses became rent houses..then a house across the street became a meth-house..and then drug tolarant grandparents moved in next-door and brought methy kids and grandkids with them...I had meth-heads across the street and next door..a city policeman across the steet next to the druggies..an OSBI agent on the other side of me..cops at the druggie houses quite often...

The cops..can't shoot meth-heads..couldn't seem to get them busted either....It was getting bad...I was hanging out with the OSBI guy and the city cop..everybody else nearby was scum!

I finally saved up some bucks and spent $180,000 and bought a house in the country...the OSBI guy was right behind me..he moved his family out of town too..a few miles from me now..still neighbors..the city cop toughed it out..and finally moved to a better neighborhood in town.

A perfectly nice little neighborhood ruined by meth heads...

It ain't so bad as it was in our town...meth seems to be like a bad plague..it peaks..and tapers off..some die..some go to jail..many move off to where ever crack heads and meth heads congregate..a scant few reform themselves..and a few remain.

 

[jbull380]

The funniest part of the Wal-Mart story was when the news interviewed her toothless tweaker friend telling us what a great person she is and she just has a bad habit. Also said she doesn't deserve what is going to happen to her. Crank is just great, keeps our guys way too busy.

 

[Stevie]

Birds of a feather stick together...

I lived for several years amongst meth heads...They are generaly happy people as long as they have 'product'..it's when the 'product' runs out that trouble begins!..This is when the fights start...and thieving begins...and 'quest for meth' becomes a 24/7 obsession..

I recall eavesdropping on a meth-head conversation one evening(other side of my privacy fence)...unhappy meth-heads were having a debate over financing a journey to Kansas City to retrieve some meth..they had enough cash scraped up to buy product..but the fuel money/servicable vehicle was the big issue stopping them from the 4 to 5 hour drive to KC....eventually the plan devolved into borrowing grandma's car..and stealing grandma's gas card..plus any cash they could steal from grandma and grandpa...

I was amazed at the logic of it all..of course they could not simply buy less meth..and use the freed-up cash for fuel money...they must expand their operating capital by stealing it from family...

I reported this to my police officer buddys..but nothing came of it..for you must catch them..and some meth heads are just crafty enough to sneak through a blockade that really doesn't exist...

 

[old bear]

the news interviewed her toothless tweaker friend telling us what a great person she

I saw pictures of both of the women, man did both of those babes look like they had been rode hard and put away wet? Crank is just a slow self induced death sentence.

 

[jbull380]

She had obviously been on the Jenny Crank diet for a while.

 

[Nacho Man]

ill be honest at one time in my life i was a tweeker. all it takes is one hit, and your cooked. ive changed though, its been 10yrs since i messed around. am i going back to that lifestyle, hell no. the worst part of it all is the ppl i hurt along the way, especially my parents, and brother. can i erase my past? no. but i can make sure i don't mess with it again or screw up. yes. i guess im one of those ppl that have to learn the hard way. it still hurts inside though, but with time, and staying on the right path ppl will forgive you.

 

[mike_1100]

For awhile we had street billboards showing the "faces of meth". My young boys saw it out the window of the car and asked me about it.

"What are you looking at? Oh that, yea they are zombies."

(Of course I have a lot of fun with my kids so they asked me if I was serious.)

Oh no, I'm not kidding and they are real. They did drugs and over time the drugs caused their bodies to rot until finally, zombies."

They tell me all the time, they never ever want to do drugs.

 

[gaucho1]

ill be honest at one time in my life i was a tweeker. all it takes is one hit, and your cooked. ive changed though, its been 10yrs since i messed around. am i going back to that lifestyle, hell no. the worst part of it all is the ppl i hurt along the way, especially my parents, and brother. can i erase my past? no. but i can make sure i don't mess with it again or screw up. yes. i guess im one of those ppl that have to learn the hard way. it still hurts inside though, but with time, and staying on the right path ppl will forgive you.

It took a lot of guts and a genuine instinct for honesty to share
your past.

I salute and support your commitment to make your now and
future clean and straight up.

You are rare but not alone.

With Respect

John

 

[Fishslayer]

People of MalMart

Here's a real piece of work. I saw another story that said she'd been in the store doing her thing for six hours before anybody (store security) got suspicious. You'd think they would at least have noticed that dragon she was chasing...

Supposedly the addiction to meth is instantaneous.

Oklahoma woman accused of cooking meth inside Walmart | ksdk.com

 

[David LaPell]

Tweekers do have a use though. Have them hold a glass of milk and you add chocolate syrup and get a milkshake.

 

[rock doc]

Tweekers do have a use though. Have them hold a glass of milk and you add chocolate syrup and get a milkshake.

Sir, that's cold...............but funny

 

[imjin138]

I see inmates in prison who get clean and go right back to it, I never understood the lure of drugs at all. I have a beer now and then and when I was younger maybe a shot of Jameson but now its mostly coffee. I did try the rice wine Makli once in Korea and I threw up so I stopped that right away.

My younger brother and sister were hooked on meth and speed my brother eventually died after spending most of his adult life in prison, he was 30. my sister got clean and has stayed that way for about 9 years now.

 

[ditrina]

Now I know i'm old..

I saw the title of the thread and thought it was about making small adjustments on a mechanical device

 

[JcMack]

If meth is any "tweakier" than the 32 ohzees of 8 o' clock coffee I have every morning I would never survive the ride. I had plans about 6-8 mons. ago to get out of this crumby neighborhood and move about 80 miles south to the "simpler life''. Then I found out how cranky it is down there, and the lack of police protection due to cutbacks. So here I sit. Potheads to the left of me, Coke heads to the right, half a league, half a league, half a league downward.

 

[Marshwheeling]

ill be honest at one time in my life i was a tweeker. all it takes is one hit, and your cooked. ive changed though, its been 10yrs since i messed around. am i going back to that lifestyle, hell no. the worst part of it all is the ppl i hurt along the way, especially my parents, and brother. can i erase my past? no. but i can make sure i don't mess with it again or screw up. yes. i guess im one of those ppl that have to learn the hard way. it still hurts inside though, but with time, and staying on the right path ppl will forgive you.

Thanks for the honesty of your post. However, it illustrates the futility of prohibition. The very existence of a recreational drug so concentrated it can hook you with a single use is purely a product of the prohibition.

Methamphetamine has been available in pill form for decades. Originally intended as a diet pill, it became popular with students, truckers, racers, or anybody else who needed to stay up way past their bedtime to study for a test, deliver a load on time, or make it to a race venue several states away. I used to use it for a number of purposes, and never came close to getting hooked. Lots of people used it the same way, and never encountered any dependencies or addictions. There were speed freaks in the sixties who shot or snorted crystal meth, were no doubt addicted, and whose lives were undoubtedly messed up. The ones I knew were mainly in the biker world. But there were better party drugs around.

Highly concentrated crystal meth did not become really popular until cocaine became expensive and relatively hard to get hold of as a result of the prohibition. The same thing happened with crack cocaine, which is more concentrated and addictive when smoked than cocaine snorted in powder form. Meth is even cheaper than crack, and can be produced in the kitchen rather than imported.

To be sure, it is a nasty drug, with corrosive social effects, but in my opinion, the prohibition has made those effects much worse than they would otherwise be.

By the way, although I have tried many drugs in the past, I do not use drugs now, and have not for several decades. I am not an apologist for drug use, as I find it tawdry, boring, and a waste of money. But the prohibition is doing more harm than good.

 

[rburg]

This thread has touched on part of another problem. Its cities tolerating the change from owner occupied to rentals or worse still, Section 8 housing. It destroys neighborhoods. The city governments are slow or they just refuse to take any steps. They just leave the houses deteriorate into dumps. There is nothing you can do no matter how much or how bitterly you complain. The excuse I've heard is its private property. I see no reason to have building codes if they won't enforce them.

It would seem that anytime you have very low cost housing, you've got the attendant problems. It includes crime and druggies (they occur together.)