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Post by Yossarian on Apr 3, 2007 22:14:58 GMT -4
Everything ok in here?
Please try to avoid making presumptions about fellow posters.
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mrpancake
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Post by mrpancake on Apr 3, 2007 22:29:35 GMT -4
While I appluad your shcool for doing drug education this statement: is a big bunch of crap. Toxins don't "work their way out of the body" through the skin leavin gaping holes. I thought that this was true, but only because a lot of people, when they get a staph infection, develop sores. I've been told it was a means of the infection leaving the body. I don't know much about meth. Why is it that celebrities are able to flaunt their drug use and get away with it? I just think that's bizarre!
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Post by Yossarian on Apr 3, 2007 22:31:40 GMT -4
Why is it that celebrities are able to flaunt their drug use and get away with it? I just think that's bizarre! Because they're richer better people than you or I, obviously!
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pepper67
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Post by pepper67 on Apr 4, 2007 15:50:49 GMT -4
A drama queen I knew phoned me one morning at 7am to wail about how she had spots all over the place and how it looked like chickenpox. Once she'd called out the doctor, she discovered it was due to the ingredients in the ecstasy she took the night before and this was her body's way of ridding itself of the poison.
You'd think, given how much of a celeb's work is tied up in how they look, that they'd all avoid meths like the plague. Those photos posted a while back were hellishly scary.
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thingee
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Post by thingee on Apr 7, 2007 18:05:10 GMT -4
While I appluad your shcool for doing drug education this statement: is a big bunch of crap. Toxins don't "work their way out of the body" through the skin leavin gaping holes. You seem like a smart kid with access ot the internet, look up the functions of the liver and kidneys and how they can affect your overall health including your immune system and the rate of skin renewal. Also look up the effects of malnutrition (which many meth users suffer from). Don't accept second rate information about your body! EXCUSE ME! I am a women with teenage children who went to a Parents Seminar after a drug dealer was shot in our community because there is a severe Meth problem in our small community. I am not a KID. We were shown picture after picture of what to look at in our teens and told by the RCMP that Meth left the body in this way. I never said it leaves gaping holes! Thanks but I think I'd prefer to believe what the RCMP tell me as they deal with this crap every day. The poster assumed you were young because you said you attended a drug seminar at "our" school instead of "my kid's" school as most people would put it. I assumed the same when I read your post. Sorry, but your post came across like you were a pre-teen or teen, and spider isn't the only one who saw it that way. Secondly, the RCMP officers who told you this are either misinformed or are being sensationalistic. What Spider wrote is 100% correct. You can choose to believe the officers if you like, but while I'm sure their intentions were good, their science was not. They may be experts on the criminal consequences of drug use, but I doubt too many cops take medical biochemistry. I have, and can tell you straight up that they were wrong and Spider is correct. Also note that Spider didn't say "Take my word for it" but rather suggested you research this more in depth, so as to learn the facts for yourself. Hardly worth being insulted about.
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fairfox
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Post by fairfox on Apr 7, 2007 18:16:31 GMT -4
Yep, Spider and Thingee are right. Part of me is surprised the RCMP is giving out junk-science info like that but then again, part of me sort of isn't surprised, either.
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hobocamp
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Post by hobocamp on Apr 11, 2007 10:13:50 GMT -4
Hey, here's a change of topic! (Somewhat...)
I heard the other day on CNN an "OMG SHOCKING drug dealers are now using powdered candy in meth and coke to lure in our children!!!" story, and all I could think was "Dummies, that shit's all going to celebutards!" Too much snark and growing up in the "officials announce pot makes you gay" Regan era has warped me, I think.
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Post by clementine74 on Apr 11, 2007 16:29:35 GMT -4
WAIT--whoa...are you serious? I am too young to remember most of the Reagan era (thankfully), but was this statement actually made?
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hobocamp
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Post by hobocamp on Apr 12, 2007 11:12:38 GMT -4
Yeah, I did a report on the legalization of marijuana my freshman year of college (real original, I know...) and I found a newspaper clipping: "Regan aide: Pot Makes You Gay." If you want to see it for yourself, I can dig it up in my files. I think it was probably in the New York Times. They did a study of kids in juvie, I think.
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spider
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Post by spider on Apr 12, 2007 23:37:06 GMT -4
Sorry to offend, I figured you were a teenager due to the school comment.
I'm a little sensitive lately as my SO and lots of our friends work as teachers to at-risk youth and some of the ridiculous crap they are supposed to tell those kids just makes my blood boil. (I'm a biologist). Kids are smart, once they figure out that some of the the info is wrong then they don't trust anything you tell them. I truly wasn't snarking at you, just at what I saw as more sensationalist BS being fed to kids. Kids know perfectly well that lots of people they see on TV every day have been doing drugs for years or even decades and they look fine! whats the problem?!?
I have one friend who teaches sex ed at public schools throughout the district and some of the bad info her kids have been exposed to by adults they trust would make you cry tears of rage as a parent. Especially the parent of a girl. ugh.
We have a GIANT meth problem around here too and it always shocks me to see how many people get sucked into it and how even the special schools for at risk kids just either ignore it or use crazy shock tactics like that that kids can see right through. I say tell them the truth, it's far worse. When I was in school they brought in actual lungs and livers from cadavers and let us see what smoking and drinking does to you. Not that it totally stopped us from smoking and drinking but it definitely delayed it for years!!!
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