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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: Chris_ on March 16, 2013, 02:34:18 PM
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Czeched Out: The Losers of Prague's Drug Liberalization
"Prices are falling," says Marek, a local dealer with a hairdo that looks like a wire wig. He has picked out a restaurant near the Charles Bridge, where he orders goulash with mashed potatoes and complains about declining profits. The dope-dealing business has seen better days, he says. He currently gets 1,500 crowns, or roughly €60 ($78), for 10 grams of weed. Regular customers -- who Marek prefers to calls "friends" -- buy on credit.
Hard drugs are purchased on the black market. The Czech Republic is notorious for its drug kitchens, which have specialized in producing crystal meth, sold here under the names pervitin and piko. More meth is manufactured in the Czech Republic than in any other European country. In 2010, police raided 307 production facilities, most of them home-based meth labs run by amateurs. The quality of the goods depends primarily on how much money and effort the meth cooks invest.
Jana comes from Slovenia, moved to Prague at the age of 19, and keeps her head above water with odd jobs. Every weekend, she hits the techno parties, where DJs play music that sounds like the jet engine of a Boeing. For Jana, drugs are part of the party. She seems hell-bent on self-destruction. There is no Plan B.
It's Friday night and she is running along the streets north of the center of town and tearing leaves from bushes. She throws the leaves aside. We have been standing at a streetcar stop for all of about five seconds when she asks: "Are we still waiting here?" Meth numbs the senses, including that of time.
Der Speigel (http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/the-winners-and-losers-of-drug-liberalization-in-the-czech-republic-a-888618-2.html)
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Ai! I hate drugs and what people do to themselves sooooo bad. Just makes me sick. What will the sober/clean ones in the future do with all the dead heads?
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What will the sober/clean ones in the future do with all the dead heads?
Make biofuel.
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What will the sober/clean ones in the future do with all the dead heads? /
I'd say institute a 'Soylent Green' Program, but then people would be getting high off of their meals. :-)
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I like a cold beer, a bloody Mary, a salty dog and I can down a pint of Jack with the best of 'em.
But, for the life of me, I cannot understand the mindset wherein one surrenders every particle of their being to an inanimate substance that chemically overrides their free will.
If I get loaded it is because I choose to as merely 1 element to an overall good time and once I sober life contiunues apace.
I look at these types of people and am reminded why I write about vampires.
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Ai! I hate drugs and what people do to themselves sooooo bad. Just makes me sick. What will the sober/clean ones in the future do with all the dead heads?
And people think all those zombie shows are fiction. So much for that theory.