i have another friend who is in jail for life because of meth abuse.. he used to be a mild mannered stoner like me.. shy and carefree.. then he started using meth and he got harder..

he was working cleaning carpets and some mean old lady called and said he hadn't done it right.. he went back and did it again for free.. she called again and said he missed a spot.. this escalated a bit until he went into a rage and broke into her house - stabbed her in the neck - and lit her house on fire.. the old woman survived, but her house burnt and one of her dogs died in the fire..

there was talk during the court case of putting him into treatment.. hospitalized.. because he obviously had paranoid dementia from too much meth.. i wish that was what happened for him.. if all drugs were brought into the light - then maybe he wouldn't have hidden his addiction and people would have known how to help him out... perhaps it would have been more obvious that he had a problem.. i blame drug prohibition and ignorance more than i do methamphetamines or fred himself.. maybe if accurate information was everywhere about what meth does to a person - he would have stopped himself...?

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