Secrets of the City

Nothing is “as big as everyone thinks…” if everyone gets their information from the MSM.

Whenever I see MSM I think of Mary Tyler Moore. I guess she was MSM.

I wouldn’t mind getting all my news from MTM.

This is an outrage! How dare City Pages trivialize the devastation caused by meth? I will never buy another issue of their magazine.

I will never buy the City Pages either.

I was waiting for that.

Note: I was referencing a couple of the comments found here. Sarcasm, y’know.

We know, Jim.

I’m calling your bluff Reader. You didn’t know.

Well…I’m never going to read The Twin Cities Reader even again!

I’m calling your bluff Reader. You didn’t know.

HA! It is like that card game BS. Except I have no concrete way to prove myself, except the fact that the City Pages is free and I knew that all along. I was just keeping Jim’s joke going.

Seriously though, any meth use is an issue to be dealt with. It really messes with people in physical and mental ways.

Anyone have a good recipe for meth handy?

…and turd comes through with the better joke.

I usually make my meth with three parts sugar and two parts cinammon. I call it methugarmin.

Misinformation is bad, but meth deserves to be demonized. I hadn’t known anyone to fall into a self-destructive spiral of drugs, until someone I know got addicted to meth. The realities of it are that you’ll go broke, and be lucky if you even get to keep your job. You’ll lose weight — maybe even enough that sitting becomes painful. There’s nothing terribly social or glamorous about it, either. I don’t recommend it, even for the adventurous.

I usually make my meth with three parts sugar and two parts cinammon. I call it methugarmin.

Sounds like enough of that could also have drastic affects on your teeth.

Methugarmin mouthugarmin.

Meth is bad news. It is pretty much game over for addicts. I don’t understand what on earth could lead anyone to trying that sh*t, but I guess that is way I don’t do it.

From what I know, which is a lot, meth is the most addictive and destructive drug many people have ever seen. Did you know that meth users will attack their televisions and VCRs when they are high because they think the people inside are trying to get them? Ya. And they have kids – in the house! I’ve also heard a lot from rural people that the number of highschool age kids doing meth is staggering. It is everybit the problem people make it out to be. If anything, we’re under estimating it. Meth is the driving factor of many identity thefts, including rashes of mailbox robberies.

Don’t do meth.

I don’t understand the attraction to meth — all I gather is that it’s a cheap, effective stimulant, but not a great high. Some insomniacs would KILL for the sleep these people are passing on.

Jack Shafer at Slate has been debunking the methamphetamine bogeyman hype. Yes, it’s widespread in rural areas and encourages crime, but addiction is far from instant or impossible to recover from. The users I’ve known don’t struggle to stay clean, and never had the poster child look of scabby faces and “meth mouth”. Just like every drug, the dangers are mostly overblown in the press.