12-04-2012, 07:21 AM
Click the link below for graphic yet educational before and after portraits detailing this drug's effects over several years.
So profoundly saddening yesterday in Hilo, actually tragic, to see what should have and would have been a strikingly well-built & handsome 20-something surfer, yet he was barely able to stand upright. He looked and acted like a zombie even though just a couple years ago he could have been a champion surfer or fashion magazine model. I was driving home from the laboratory and waited for a couple minutes at an intersection while he stood on the streetcorner a few feet away, trying to figure out if it was safe for him to enter the crosswalk. By the time he finally started forward his pedestrian "advance" signal switched to "wait" and, piteously, he nearly fell as he halted, swayed, and retreated back a few steps to cling to a post, clearly ravaged by ice (or meth, or crack, or crank, or whatever this awful stuff is being called at the moment in a particular locality). A burnt-out husk, teeth missing, sores everywhere, skin in shreds and tatters- but still with astonishingly beautiful hair; he must have swiftly slid down a very steep slope. It was so deeply sad. Such a waste.
I do not think even if all the king's horses and all the king's finest medical staff immediately converged and freely did their best there would be any possible recovery, he is so far gone. There is a point of no return and he looked far past it, alas, a critical mass of liver cells, CNS neurons, and so on already dead. Clearly, this is one high wall never to climb atop since the inevitable fall is such a hard one, based on the all-too-common results I see around here. Anyone who has started dabbling with this stuff, please seek immediate help.
As for the makers and sellers of this poison, may the most potent of geas be laid upon them and seep into every aspect of their lives that the misery they bring to others swiftly rebounds and is felt tenfold in their own personal experience and being.
If I had not seen the pathetic 20-something zombie yesterday, the last glimmers of his former youthful glory almost extinguished, then I would think the photos at this website were faked or some sort of absurd Reefer Madness scare tactic, but no, actually, I have seen enough firsthand now to believe the evidence.
Faces of Meth
http://www.businessinsider.com/new-faces...ng-2012-12
As a Libertarian my first inclination is for the legalization of all drugs (partially to lower the price and remove profit incentive for producers) yet there must be some accompanying social reforms with regard to education, treatment, and employment for that to work out well in practical effect. Until then, anything and everything we can do as individuals and a society to combat "ice" is worth doing.
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Nina Paley's music video "All Creative Work Is Derivative"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcvd5JZkUXY&list=FLP7Vhr8C1-hS6BNSE3s6sMw&index=57&feature=plpp_video
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So profoundly saddening yesterday in Hilo, actually tragic, to see what should have and would have been a strikingly well-built & handsome 20-something surfer, yet he was barely able to stand upright. He looked and acted like a zombie even though just a couple years ago he could have been a champion surfer or fashion magazine model. I was driving home from the laboratory and waited for a couple minutes at an intersection while he stood on the streetcorner a few feet away, trying to figure out if it was safe for him to enter the crosswalk. By the time he finally started forward his pedestrian "advance" signal switched to "wait" and, piteously, he nearly fell as he halted, swayed, and retreated back a few steps to cling to a post, clearly ravaged by ice (or meth, or crack, or crank, or whatever this awful stuff is being called at the moment in a particular locality). A burnt-out husk, teeth missing, sores everywhere, skin in shreds and tatters- but still with astonishingly beautiful hair; he must have swiftly slid down a very steep slope. It was so deeply sad. Such a waste.
I do not think even if all the king's horses and all the king's finest medical staff immediately converged and freely did their best there would be any possible recovery, he is so far gone. There is a point of no return and he looked far past it, alas, a critical mass of liver cells, CNS neurons, and so on already dead. Clearly, this is one high wall never to climb atop since the inevitable fall is such a hard one, based on the all-too-common results I see around here. Anyone who has started dabbling with this stuff, please seek immediate help.
As for the makers and sellers of this poison, may the most potent of geas be laid upon them and seep into every aspect of their lives that the misery they bring to others swiftly rebounds and is felt tenfold in their own personal experience and being.
If I had not seen the pathetic 20-something zombie yesterday, the last glimmers of his former youthful glory almost extinguished, then I would think the photos at this website were faked or some sort of absurd Reefer Madness scare tactic, but no, actually, I have seen enough firsthand now to believe the evidence.
Faces of Meth
http://www.businessinsider.com/new-faces...ng-2012-12
As a Libertarian my first inclination is for the legalization of all drugs (partially to lower the price and remove profit incentive for producers) yet there must be some accompanying social reforms with regard to education, treatment, and employment for that to work out well in practical effect. Until then, anything and everything we can do as individuals and a society to combat "ice" is worth doing.
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Nina Paley's music video "All Creative Work Is Derivative"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcvd5JZkUXY&list=FLP7Vhr8C1-hS6BNSE3s6sMw&index=57&feature=plpp_video
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Astonishing skill! This archer is a real-life Legolas and then some!
http://geekologie.com/2013/11/real-life-...rs-anc.php
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Astonishing skill! This archer is a real-life Legolas and then some!
http://geekologie.com/2013/11/real-life-...rs-anc.php
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herion is making a big comeback it is the next zombie maker