Reply #42: Giving it out free just makes me think Mad Max

[eeyore]

All I can envision is total chaos. It's not like Heroine where you just nod off - these motherfuckers are AWAKE and totally manic for 24-36 hours at a time. They finally crash, then get up and do it all over again. We would need to somehow contain these people and keep them occupied or else all hell would break loose.

As for my brother, there's no way he could have done his job on meth, legal or not. He was so fucked up that all he wanted to do was come down so that he could get high again. Seriously. He looked like shit, was a total zombie, unable to communicate or function in society at all.

You can't shake meth without going through 6-12 months of severe depression, he wasn't going to just shake it. There is no methodone equivalent, so you just have to ride out the depression, but first you have to come to long enough to realize that you've lost everything and need to climb out of the hole.

I can't with a good conscience say that our government should be dealing shit like that. I think that the government needs to offer people real treatment options, real ways out of the hole. As it stands there isn't much help, and people end up losing their jobs, cars, homes, kids, everything. All for a really agressive and teeth gnashing high.

Sorry. Free clean shit from the government just makes me think of more zombies in the streets. It's hard to imagine it not being that way.

You wouldn't give alcoholics free state funded alcohol.