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Re: Legalise it all! (probably) » Tom Twilight

Posted by alexandra_k on June 13, 2005, at 18:11:01

In reply to Legalise it all! (probably), posted by Tom Twilight on June 13, 2005, at 11:52:29

Hiya Tom :-)

> Firstly that 'Speed' (by which I assume you mean amphetamine) is a hard drug.
> I personaly don't know if I would put stimulants in the same catagory as opiates.
> Amphetamines can be addictive obviesly, but I took Dexedrine over a period of several months (with frequent days off) and didn't get addicted at all.
> I fact I was able to discontinue with no taper

But that is a mild form. This is (relatively) pure amphetamine. You get a bit about the size of a match head. You can mix it with glucose or whatever to make speed (apparantly) to snort it or shoot it, but typically people smoke it. A hit lasts about 8 hours. Then you start to feel flat and then down. Thats when you start to want to take another hit... People take it for a couple of days. You can't sleep on it. After about a week you show symptoms that are indistinguishable from paranoid schizophrenia. People have been known to attack others out of paranoia. It is fairly addictive - though not as addictive as crack apparantly.

I used to take a fair bit of speed. We'd get a bag and take some every eight hours until it was all gone. It would last us a couple days. But then: thats all folks, we would not get another bag for a month or two. The withdrawal took 3 or 4 days. Runny nose, constipation, feeling flat and down and drained. Bit like a bad cold. I guess what is so hard about physical withdrawal is that you know that all symptoms will cease upon taking just one more hit...

> If the drugs that addicts crave were more easily available they would not have to resort to such desperate measures to obtain them.

I agree :-)

 

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