Not sure if this is welcome here or not

[LiberalLoner]

3. Thank you for your work helping others. What gets me is that I still remember the ads in the 1960's

the ones that had some person pretending to shoot up and "speed kills." Those ads really horrified me and made me very curious as a kid. I wanted to understand why on earth anyone would do such a terrible drug or any drug really. It scared me badly enough, I never wanted to do any illegal drugs and don't even like drinking much. (I have one drink sometimes if we are going to dinner with friends. More than one makes me feel loopy and I don't like that feeling.)

But I do like my morning caffeine, and actually drink tea throughout the day, so maybe that's not so different from those other stimulant drugs. I mean I guess I can understand the attraction, if a person doesn't think harm will happen from them.

Looking back on things I think I have seen some meth addicts and didn't realize it at the time.

I guess what bugs me is that we never seem to learn, as a society. We went through that in the 60's, people dying and acting crazy from speed (Charles Manson and his family were high on speed) and yet here we are again.