Steve Gotzler
----- Original Message ----- From: "Wendy Lyon" <wendy.lyon at gmail.com> To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 4:16 PM Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Meth is king?
> On 7/7/05, jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net <jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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>> I find it unpleasant but I don't like cocaine much either. I don't like
>> "speedy" things.
>
> I actually didn't like coke the two or three times I did it. It's a
> different kind of speedy, I think. Plus, and this may have changed
> since I was doing it in the late 1980s, you could do one small line of
> meth and that would keep you going the whole night. The cokeheads had
> to do big, expensive lines and replenish every few hours.
>
> >From what I've seen in the workplace in the past it makes working
> difficult as it makes concentration
>> extremely difficult.
>
> Not my experience. I could work, do crossword puzzles, even play
> chess, *much* better on speed than off it.
>
> It is a nasty drug though. It does horrible things to you physically.
> I had chronic bronchitis (although that meant a chronic supply of
> cough syrup with codeine, then my #1 drug of choice), a constant
> nosebleed, bad skin ("speed bumps", we called them), and just
> generally felt like crap much of the time. I was probably a fairly
> unbearable person, too, that tends to go with the territory.
>
> Fortunately I cleaned up after only about a year and a half of
> frequent use - thankfully having refused to join in when most of my
> friends went from snorting to shooting - and I was still a teenager at
> the time, so no longterm damage, at least not that I'm aware of.
>
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