Meth America

Kids, what doMeth, I've just found out, is cool with teen-agers here in Wisconsin and I've been wondering how on Earth that can be. No cool people that I've heard of - you know, movie stars, musicians, rap stars and such - use the stuff. So how can this be the latest thing? Yeah, I'm not hip to youth culture anywhere anymore, but this stuff mystifies me. All drugs are bad, of course, and no one should use them, but some of the other plagues at least had some sort of a positive reputation. Cocaine, for instance, was supposed to make you thin and beautiful. And then broke and then psychotic. What does Meth do? It makes you skinny and ugly. And then broke. And then psychotic. you see in this stuff? Is it just that Weed is too expensive? I guess it's like Chris Rock always said: People want to get high. And if you eliminated every single drug we have now, they'd find something else. I'm pretty Libertarian about things and think that the legal consequences of drug use shouldn't be more punitive then the physical and social ones, but ... I don't know. This one turns people really bad. Maybe I'm kind of wrong and it should be very, very illegal.