Comments on: Peter Murphy busted for DUI hit-and-run injury and meth possession

By: spoonfish

spoonfish — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 12:35:00 +0000

or Christopher Lee…

By: B E Pratt

B E Pratt — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 05:53:00 +0000

Eh, the whole problem is that, erm, we’ve (well those who’ve tried it), have had various forms of speed but Gwad really only knows what. Do you assay your drugs before you take them, or just believe that your dealer knows what the fuck he’s talking about. Just sayin’

By: B E Pratt

B E Pratt — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 05:45:00 +0000

This is requiring a lot of thought to reply to. You seem to be trying to work out how to deal with what you’ve had to deal with. Sucks sure. And I had to give thought to meth being nastier than heroin. They can both be devastating. Both can require abnormal behavior simply to acquire more. Heroin, well, you’ll probably be mellow to dead while on it. Meth, not. And paranoid to boot after a while. Knew someone who did speedball (meth/heroin shot). Knew. What I really want to say is that perhaps you can do something with your anger. It is obvious that you are trying. Learn more and teach. Do NOT preach. Telling lies about drugs is about as helpful as when the government thought that poisoning existing alcohols during Prohibition would be a dandy idea [true story http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2010/02/the_chemists_war.html I wish you good luck and a happy life. It can happen.

By: B E Pratt

B E Pratt — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 05:14:00 +0000

I would argue that you are not at all familiar with the methods of lawyers :) That said, am truly sorry about your problem, but it is best not to read too much into what is simply just a form of, well, argument.

By: B E Pratt

B E Pratt — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 05:08:00 +0000

Damn! Now I want to add Mixed Amphetamine Salts to my garlic salt for popcorn….

By: B E Pratt

B E Pratt — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 05:06:00 +0000

As for something else still well worth the time is Licit And Illict Drugs http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/library/studies/cu/cumenu.htm for the whole text.
Even though this sucker is 40 years old, it can still teach. Oddly enough, from Consumer Union Reports. We’ve just kept shooting ourselves in both feet ever since, possibly because it is thought that it will feel so good when we have no feet. Or knees. Or balls.

By: B E Pratt

B E Pratt — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 04:58:00 +0000

Dexedrine, you might like to know, was fairly prevalent during WWII (possibly even earlier, whoops, no) and make that VERY prevalent in WWII to keep soldiers and fliers alert (can’t see it being used in the Navy for the obvious weird sleep schedules there)

By: B E Pratt

B E Pratt — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 04:33:00 +0000

Beat me to it.

By: B E Pratt

B E Pratt — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 04:31:00 +0000

Fingerprints?! We don’ need no steeking fingerprints!!

By: B E Pratt

B E Pratt — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 04:30:00 +0000

Dunno: depression/suburu…possible pattern here

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 23:49:00 +0000

Who Put The Benzedrine In Mrs. Murphy's Ovaltine?

By: My Ocean

My Ocean — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 23:36:00 +0000

He said something about depression medication, which I would think is more in line with what I’d expect out of him than meth.

But then again, he was driving in a Subaru, so I’m confounded.

By: My Ocean

My Ocean — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 23:35:00 +0000

I have limited exposure to meth users, but I would ask if he’s scabbed over and has lost his teeth before answering.

By: Sasha Shepherd

Sasha Shepherd — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 23:30:00 +0000

And it was made illegal in 1924, there ya go.

By: Gilbert Wham

Gilbert Wham — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 23:23:00 +0000

It’s OK, I’ve listed them in this comment for those who can’t find an Anthropologist.

By: Gilbert Wham

Gilbert Wham — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 23:21:00 +0000

You’re not very accurate, no. MDA is Methyline Dioxy Amphetamine; very similar in action to MDMA, but longer-lasting and somewhat more hallucinogenic. MDMA was rediscovered in the late ’80s mainly because MDA was made illegal a while earlier, ushering in the concept of ‘designer drugs’, hence the current trend for tweaking chemicals from David Nichols’ 1990s paper on non-neurotoxic MDMA analogues to sell as legal highs.

By: Gilbert Wham

Gilbert Wham — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 23:15:00 +0000

horseshit. I’ve had various kinds of speed, pharmaceutical dexies and MDMA. At least one of those things is not like the other.

By: Jason Miller

Jason Miller — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 21:07:00 +0000

Similar chemical structures yield very different results. Try drinking H2O2 next time you’re thirsty.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 20:37:00 +0000

“Here is a powerful medicine you might well develop an addiction to, I’ve mixed it up so that it does serious medical harm to you in that case”

Here is a powerful medicine you might well need to function and which might require an increasing dose over time in order to continue functioning. FTFY

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 20:15:00 +0000

Cocaine is used in medicine. We kept it in our narc cabinet at work. I’ve been injected with it several times, although it didn’t do any good.

By: duc chau

duc chau — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 19:43:00 +0000

Done. Meth and Dexadrine… yes. MDMA… not even close. However, “E” is often made with meth (and MDMA of course). So if you drop E and you feel like you’re on meth… that’s because you’re on meth.

By: Manel

Manel — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 18:42:00 +0000

I don’t know how accurate this is, but I remember reading in the Psychedelic Encyclopedia almost 20 years ago that ecstasy is MDMA, and meth is MDA – only one atom less, but yeah, it makes all the difference between the two chemical subtances. The text also noted that both of these drugs have some shared side effects, however, such as increased heart-rate, excessive perspiration, grinding of teeth, and clenching of jaw.

By: david steinmuller

david steinmuller — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 17:58:00 +0000

H2O vs H2O2 Those little atoms make a world of difference.

By: rocketpj

rocketpj — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 17:27:00 +0000

I trust the LAPD exactly zero in this. I doubt he is a meth-freak, though he could be one of those occasional casual users.

That said, it was probably in the squad car already, or planted there by the cops when they had him pegged for another defenseless loser and didn’t know that he will probably be able to afford lawyers that will utterly shred their bogus case.

By: donovan acree

donovan acree — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 16:49:00 +0000

Watch That Grandad Go. He must be Burning From The Inside with Adrenalin from the meth. He should be careful. That stuff can give you a Black Stone Heart.

By: The Life Of Bryan

The Life Of Bryan — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 16:41:00 +0000

Ask your friendly neighborhood anthropologist for a list of cultures that don’t engage in some form of consciousness modification by chemical means.

By: Antonio Carrasco

Antonio Carrasco — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 16:39:00 +0000

ecstasy is NOT good for you, but it simply doesn’t produce the bizarre crime stories old fashioned crystal meth does. Something about the minor chemical variation between the two substances definitely produces very different reactions in users.

We have plenty of case history to show that even though the two drugs are chemically very similar, the users exhibit very different behavior.

By: Matt Fisher

Matt Fisher — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 16:37:00 +0000

Exactly. Just because Adderall is described as “Mixed Amphetamine Salts” doesn’t mean it would go well on popcorn.

By: wysinwyg

wysinwyg — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 16:10:00 +0000

And, when this was the case, nobody was injecting the stuff.

Maybe if you go back to the time when syringes were so rare and expensive your average dope fiend couldn’t afford one. Like the 19th century maybe? But in the 20th you’re full of shit. Junkies were shooting heroin by at least the 30′s.

By: Quiche de Resistance

Quiche de Resistance — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 16:00:00 +0000

Buildings are just as bad as adderall. We should all live in our natural biological state: outdoors (caves if you’re a wimp), and drug-free.