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Termyn8or -> RE: Free heroin gives good results (6/6/2010 5:55:07 AM)
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FR
I have long supported the idea of government non-intervention when it comes to intoxicants, citing the failure of prohibition and such, and can make a good case. Even to go so far as to say to let them kill themselves with the shit. However a sane Man is able to reconsider his position on most matters, and at this point I am. I am dealing with a few "ex" crack addists now and I see something from a perspective I have not seen before, that is that coke/crack is a dangerous substance. While I have not changed my position right now, it is in contention.
Now I have done just about every drug out there except for heroin and magic mushrooms. And what's been said about crack is not true, it IS the purest form of cocaine, I have seen the process to make it. That process removes all the cut, which renders it unsnortable because it will eat away at you. The cut is needed or else you will get a serious nosebleed after doing a line. Once in it's pure form it can only be smoked or injected. Smoking is damn near as good because if you have healthy lungs it gets into your bloodstream really fast, and rather than a vein in the arm, the lungs will feed it to the brain directly, making it the method of choice for many. There is another very effective method - foils. To do foils you mix it with some soda, and smear it on a piece of aluminum foil perhaps two feet long. You smoke it using a top from a two liter soda pop bottle. The method offers a very fast level of injestion, and very good controlability. However it usually takes two people. And there are two heatings of the substance on the foil, the first pass basically "free bases" it and then the second is when you hit it. I could never get the hang of the first pass. When you use a stem and your lungs are full, there is some inevitable loss. But let's not dwell on that.
Where I am coming from here is that while I maintain that the government has no right to regulate or prohibit things that get you high, with the things I've seen in life I am starting to think that crack and smack are dangerous substances. Now most of us want the proper entity, which would be the government to prohibit putting poisons in our food and water. Wishing the FDA would do it's damn job. Having personally seen what it can do to people, perhaps it is not a recreational drug, but indeed a toxic substance. That changes the whole equation for me.
We are talking a guy who used to make around a hundred grand a year, and now has a TV and a bed as all his worldly posessions. Another who commited a robbery and when confronted maimed the guy so bad he went to prisoin for twenty years. Talk about remorse, they have it. Nonetheless they need occasional reminders not to again fall into that hole. And they KNOW exactly what it will do to them, but the addiction is that strong.
Nowadays, I do hard drugs perhaps once a year. I don't like them enough to have a problem and/or I am simply not an addictive personality. I thank my lucky stars for whatever reason I am not addicted, because like I said I have tried almost everything. I used to do it all the time though, and with decent earning power never got myself into alot of trouble i.e. owing the dopeman. I liked to do T on Christmas (pharmeceutical PCP) but gave that up because being high like that I saw I was missing out on part of the experience. Really I never gave a shit about Christmas but it was family time. I stopped.
I stopped because I wanted to stop. I had no rehab or anything like that, but over the years I have found that others are not like me. Why I am this way is anyone's guess, but it may have something to do with the fact that though my upbringing was not all that stern and structured, indications of weakness or stupidity were not tolerated, and I mean really not tolerated. That may or may not have something to do with it, or it could just be a matter of body chemistry. I am not sure.
But just because I don't need to be protected from it, that doesn't mean the same is true for everyone. Many people are weak, and will succumb to an intoxicant. At this point, am I my brother's keeper ? Should I be ?
Which brings up the question, should the law protect the weak, or enable the strong ? As usual, more questions than answers.
T
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