Wednesday, March 01, 2006

More sex and dancing, less smiling...

Now that cocaine use has reached saturation point, with figures today showing 1.2 million users in the UK, it's almost certainly not cool anymore.
Unusually for Britain, we're behind Methamphetamine growth worldwide, dubbed the 'sex and dancing' drug, but it's on its way.
For those keen to move onto something different, here's the lowdown:
Known commonly as Crystal Meth, basically it's super speed. Invented in Japan in the early part of the last century, the drug was used as a stimulant by the Nazis and allies in World War 2 and given to soldiers on both sides, particularly on the Western front.
Its next big use was in the 60s and 70s, when it was prescribed as a slimming drug to millions, including my dad.
It went ''recreational'' in the 80s, with San Diego being dubbed the home of the drug at the time.
The quickest way of getting high from it are, starting with the most effective, smoking, injecting, sticking it up your arse, snorting, swallowing.
It's a Class B drug, but moves to a Class A if it's made suitable for injection.
The downsides are fairly typical - addiction, come downs, paranoia, loss of appetite, acting like a twat, thinking you are interesting, hallucinations, fatigue, depression, suicide.
It can wear out your nose from snorting too, but nowhere near as much as charlie.
Other names for it are: Glass, Ice, P, Tina, Tik.
However, beautiful people thinking of switching from coke should note Crystal Meth's most famous side effect....
Click the title of this post, to see what I mean.

2 Comments:

Blogger Steve said...

I think you'll find that the drug whose historical uses you refer to is amphetamine. Methamphetamine is a much more virulent and addictive form. I can just hear the Department of Defense lamenting that it wasn't available in the second World War. Troops relying on you for their next fix will go even further over the top to win.

March 04, 2006  
Blogger ENGLISH RANTER said...

Nah Steve, close but no cigar. For your amphetamine you have to go back to a drug invented back end of the 19th century, used in WWI. But it was Methamphetamine that was invented by the Japanese after WWI and used by hitler and allies (along with amphetamines)in WWII Records show Hitler used to have a shot from his personal physician...

March 04, 2006  

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