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<blockquote data-quote="Nandina" data-source="post: 754953" data-attributes="member: 23742"><p>Wow—I didn’t realize crystal meth was legal in the 90s! But now we have all the meth labs and regular people trying to cook it up in their homes. I think the internet might have helped there, with recipes for it and cheap ingredients to produce. (drain cleaner, anyone?) Cheapness might even have something to do with the younger kids doing drugs. They are affordable to anyone, even a kid with an allowance from Mom and Dad.</p><p></p><p>And think of all the countries now involved in supplying us with illegal drugs. I just read that China is our largest supplier of Fentanyl, another drug that has been mainstreamed. Apparently it is very cheap to make. But it’s extremely potent, used in anesthesiology and never, ever meant to be a street drug! It is responsible for hundreds of thousands of overdoses. On the street, it’s used to cut heroin.</p><p></p><p>Back to the original question and what bothers me too, is why? Just because something is readily available and cheap doesn’t mean everyone has to use it. What is it about our society that so many of our young people just live to get high? Is life so hard that escaping reality with drugs is the only way to get through it? It seems it would have been so much harder back on that farm.</p><p></p><p>Good question Crayola—one that I think about a lot.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nandina, post: 754953, member: 23742"] Wow—I didn’t realize crystal meth was legal in the 90s! But now we have all the meth labs and regular people trying to cook it up in their homes. I think the internet might have helped there, with recipes for it and cheap ingredients to produce. (drain cleaner, anyone?) Cheapness might even have something to do with the younger kids doing drugs. They are affordable to anyone, even a kid with an allowance from Mom and Dad. And think of all the countries now involved in supplying us with illegal drugs. I just read that China is our largest supplier of Fentanyl, another drug that has been mainstreamed. Apparently it is very cheap to make. But it’s extremely potent, used in anesthesiology and never, ever meant to be a street drug! It is responsible for hundreds of thousands of overdoses. On the street, it’s used to cut heroin. Back to the original question and what bothers me too, is why? Just because something is readily available and cheap doesn’t mean everyone has to use it. What is it about our society that so many of our young people just live to get high? Is life so hard that escaping reality with drugs is the only way to get through it? It seems it would have been so much harder back on that farm. Good question Crayola—one that I think about a lot. [/QUOTE]
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