The main difference is the price and the availability.stui magpie wrote:
Even the signs are very similar, main difference would be the Coke user has a runny nose
Ice is cheap and be made in a blazing garage.
Coke is extremely expensive and (was) difficult to get.
Back before the Afghan invasion (around 2000) the authorities thought they were winning the war on Heroin and coke.
They were sort of right, but for the wrong reasons.
Heroin dried up because the Taliban were trying to deal to let them import US weapons in exchange for stopping the exports and new survailance techniques were stopping and/or catching coke from south America.
New drinking laws and much tougher road checks and higher taxes were discouraging strong drinking particularly late at night.
People want/need to do something to alter their mind states so they turned to speed.
New refining techniques lead to development of ice.
The internet gave millions of people access to the knowledge to make a meth lab and what chems were/are needed and how to obtain them.
Dancing all night was flourishing but drinking was out so ice stepped in.
Bingo!
The War started and the opium began flowing again.
The market had taken a dip, so it flooded in and the price dropped.
Sth America followed suit
People on H or ppl who smoke weed really just want to be left alone to sleep or chill out.
The problem is the cost makes them do serious crime to support a seriously expense habit.
Ice ramps the user up to a state where they just can't control themselves and have very little idea of the real world really is like.
Ice addicts are mental cases because that is what happens when you stuff seriously strong stimulants through the blood stream and brain (or what remains of it).
They war on drugs wan't won, it just went up a few notches (to a point where doctors are longing for the good ol days of basically dealing with an unconscious person that just needed to be woken up...or not.
I know of at least 4 people in this small town of 1500 that sell ice or can get in a heart beat.
Heroin is here but the market is small.
Prior to 2000 that would have been impossible.
(Hell I knew of a bloke that caught a taxi from Geelong to Stkilda to score smack once a fort-night).
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Dope smokers only have one real problem, they have to deal with crims to have a calming smoke at night but if they have the means (or local) they can get around that...err except that wanting to have a quiet smoke at home makes them criminals anyway.
People through out recorded history have turned to drugs to alter their minds states in one way or the other.
If this country wants to get serious about the damage drugs do, they are going to have to get realist (not to mention rational) about the way it is being fought and who it is being fought against.
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