Re: OT... just to warn those with kids.... grape flavored meth?

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> I agree Debra. I don't care if adults want to be drug addicts, that's

> their choice, they are adults. But targeting kids is a new low and

just

> infuriates me.

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> N.

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Ugh!! What will these people think of next???? I am always amazed

when I read my little hometown paper and read of all of the arrests and

busts the local police, state police, etc. are making in the area where

I grew up naive and innocent except for the dangers of that demon

alcohol!!! By the time I went off to the university after 2 years at a

junior college, I became exposed to the main drug of choice ---

marijuana. And I am now thinking about the fact that I had my first

drink of an alcholic mixed drink about a month before my 21st

birthday! Somehow I managed to get through a number of years of never

touching any of the marijuana, and other things even stronger ---

didn't even get the contact high two of my roommates had had bet on how

long it would take them get me hooked!! My sister had a a favorite

phrase about using drugs -- " My head is messed up enough without adding

something else to it! " And if anyone could have been tempted more than

my sister with the friends she had, I will tip my hat to them. I

remember one time walking into a party some of them were having and the

ones who did not know who I was were just sure I was a " narc! "

But I was really shocked a few years ago when I was either having some

bad skin reactions or a sinus problem and I stopped at a gas station

with a mini mart and could not find any Benadryl on any of the

shelves. I guess I should have realized, after reading that little

paper online of the problem, but I did NOT know that, at least in that

part of Illinois, anything with whatever substance they need to make

meth is in Benadryl and other such medicines. I asked the clerk, he

said it was locked behind the counter and that he would have to see my

driver's license to make certain I am over 21 ---- strange to be asked

that --- I know with my white hair and a few other things it is pretty

obvious I am well over that age. And now I think it must be a federal

law! But the other part of the problem is that one way the ones who

cooks the stuff get as much as they need is by going from store to

store!!!! And I don't know if there is a system in place so that the

an individual's name gets put into some kind of computer system that

indicates an individual has purchased the max for any one day. I just

know it is a very big problem in the area where I grew up.

On, the other hand, maybe it shouldn't surprise me as much because

during prohibition, there were gang wars between all of the bootleggers

all over the area from East St. Louis across the state and to the very

tip. And supposedly one of my great uncles was killed by one of the

gangs because he had his own still!