[ScottieK]

Funny I found this thread...I went to a drug education class last night, put on by local law enforcement. Most of the class was dedicated to meth, and all the pictures of users that they showed us showed a rapid physical deterioration over time. Users get a continual nervous system stimulus that makes them scratch at their arms and legs...in some cases, to the bone. According to them, meth is ten times as addicting as crack, and crack is some scary s$^%. So I can't see anything hard like meth, crack, heroin, or LSD actually improving your life with long-term use.

A devil's advocate could claim that rock stars like Jim Morrison, Layne Staley, and a bunch of others couldn't have been as talented without LSD, heroin or coke. Even if that is true, the price some paid for harnessing that talent is too high IMO.

As for marijuana, in the class they said that today's marijuana has several times the THC that it did in the 1970's. I don't think an occasional joint by itself would really hurt anyone, but the cops said that some of the guys they've busted would smoke a dozen joints a day....and they just wouldn't care about anything in the world without being aware of anything around them.

ScottieK