REPOSTER wrote:pcslim 2010-01-27:
It's a sad reality that methamphetamine use has ruined many lives. Even sadder is that once addicts have deteriorated to a certain point they can't be rehabilitated. The brain damage in many cases is so extreme and so severe that there's just no hope that the individual will ever be able to function as a competent member of society. Many of these people even after they've been off drugs for a number of months never regain mental competence. They seem to have lost much of what we expect humans to be capable of. In a prior comment someone stated that it's as if they have "lost their souls." I'd have to agree that there isn't a much better way of explaining the results of long-term methamphetamine use.
I gotta agree with myself. Thanks for reposting this thread. While I'm in favor of legalizing marijuana, I recognize that certain drugs should remain illegal. Meth is one of those drugs too dangerous to legalize. Manufacturing, distributing, and using meth should result in arrest and incarceration as far as I'm concerned. However, marijuana should be legal to grow, process, distribute, use, etc. As far as I'm concerned there is a HUGE difference between a relatively benign substance such as marijuana and an extremely dangerous substance such as methamphetamine!