crystal meth

[MedicalMarijuana]

If your friends re doing meth than they arent your real friends. next thing you know they wanna jack you to go buy a sack. stick with mj

[Not Enough Herb]

sum ignorant fuckers on this board man

do w/e fuckin drugs u want...who r to say what sumone else can do or cant do...no one tells u to smoke weed or not to smoke weed so y cant sumone do meth.

later

[Nullific]

Are you kidding me?
So I could have a friend addicted to cough medicine, caffeine, tobacco or cannbis...but not meth because it is 'hard'
Or maybe not even they're straight...maybe my 'friends' are going to jack me so they can buy a pack of cigarettes or a box of coricidin or a coffee...I better watch my back.
This drug is undoubtedly addictive and addictions can cause people to loose control, but that is from the persons personality not the substance.

It is the same bullshit the government starts with "Real friends don't let friends do drugs." mainly targeted at marijuana smokers. Wake up.

[RIP ODB]

This might have even been mentioned already but I know that crystal meth has the lowest recovery rate of any drug. That is, hardly anyone who gets addicted to it comes back to sobriety. I'm blazed so bear with me.

[SmoKa]

Fuck that shit. If you feel like ruining your life... go for it... i personally am going to keep my precious ass body far away from that meth shit.

[RIP ODB]

Fuck that shit. If you feel like ruining your life... go for it... i personally am going to keep my precious ass body far away from that meth shit.

Word.

[kiwi]

Over here, New Zealand, meth is called "P" or "ICE". Its really big over here and at times is easier to obtain then cannabis is. Not so long ago I went tho a patch of using it on a daily basis until one day I just woke up and thought "to hell with this shit", and I tipped $1000 worth of it down the toilet. In the time I was using no one ever knew and done of my mates had any idea. Since then I have told them and none of them ever noticed any crazy behavour from me, but within myself I know what it can do and i thank my lucky stars that it didn't fuck me up. Once a month or so I do have it but it doesn't control my life nor am I hungrey for it. I control my drugs they don't control me

[Dick Justice]

Good on you. That extra $1000 worth could have easily fucked up your life for good. Now maybe your toilet is jonesin', but not you.

[Creeper]

Ok children, lets crush up some sudafed pills, mix it with some battery acid, then some ammonia, and whatever the hell else we can find under the sink and in the bathroom and mix it together, cook it for awhile (btw the fumes cause brain damage, loads of fun!) then well snort it untill were digging at our skin like monkeys digging for mites, sounds like fun huh?!.........phhh.

[Nullific]

Ok children, lets crush up some sudafed pills, mix it with some battery acid, then some ammonia, and whatever the hell else we can find under the sink and in the bathroom and mix it together, cook it for awhile (btw the fumes cause brain damage, loads of fun!) then well snort it untill were digging at our skin like monkeys digging for mites, sounds like fun huh?!.........phhh.

Salt water can be made from lye (drain cleaner) and hydrochloric acid (very corrosive acid).
I don't know what they taught you about meth in school, but its made from reduction of ephedrine and for large scale synthesis it would be impracticle to use pseudoephedrine containing OTC medications. There are many methods for making meth and it is pretty easy to do but it isn't like these kitchen chemists are using random chemicals, most have to have at least a basic understanding of what they are doing.
It is correct though that meth on the streets is impure, users cannot be sure of its potency (it is like you couldn't tell beer from hard liquor) and it would be better off legalized or allowed for doctors to prescribe to addicts since they are obiously going to use it anyways. This would also keep it out of the hands of teens.
Another part of the problem is that the overwhelming majority of schools drug education programs call for teaching abstinence as opposed to harm reduction.

If you want to look at it chemically you will see that methamphetamines come in two flavors or isomers dextro and levo, dextro being several times more potent. d-methamphetamine is what people on the street want although street meth usually turns out to be a mix of both isomers as well as the precursors psuedo/ephedrine. l-methamphetamine is found over the counter in small quantities such as in Vicks Nasal Inhalers but the active ingredients list has it as 'levmetamfetamine'. This is why we call it the War on some drugs, chemically these substances are very similar, they are isomers of each other and yet one has greater pyschological effects and thus is considered a bad drug.