« previous next »
Pages: [1]   Go Down

Author Topic: Czeched Out: The Losers of Prague's Drug Liberalization  (Read 1023 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline Chris_

  • Little Lebowski Urban Achiever
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 46845
  • Reputation: +2028/-266
Czeched Out: The Losers of Prague's Drug Liberalization
« on: March 16, 2013, 02:34:18 PM »
Quote
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
Logged
If you want to worship an orange pile of garbage with a reckless disregard for everything, get on down to Arbys & try our loaded curly fries.

Offline longview

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 3292
  • Reputation: +224/-34
Re: Czeched Out: The Losers of Prague's Drug Liberalization
« Reply #1 on: March 16, 2013, 06:40:06 PM »
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?
Logged

Offline wasp69

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 7567
  • Reputation: +907/-520
  • Hillbilly Yeti
Re: Czeched Out: The Losers of Prague's Drug Liberalization
« Reply #2 on: March 16, 2013, 07:25:18 PM »
Quote from: longview on March 16, 2013, 06:40:06 PM
What will the sober/clean ones in the future do with all the dead heads?

Make biofuel.
Logged
"We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and then bid the geldings to be fruitful."

C.S. Lewis

A community may possess all the necessary moral qualifications, in so high a degree, as to be capable of self-government under the most adverse circumstances; while, on the other hand, another may be so sunk in ignorance and vice, as to be incapable of forming a conception of liberty, or of living, even when most favored by circumstances, under any other than an absolute and despotic government.

John C Calhoun, "Disquisition on Government", 1840

Offline RayRaytheSBS

  • "There are no dangerous weapons; there are only dangerous men."
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 1195
  • Reputation: +200/-13
Re: Czeched Out: The Losers of Prague's Drug Liberalization
« Reply #3 on: March 16, 2013, 11:19:21 PM »
Quote
What will the sober/clean ones in the future do with all the dead heads? /
Quote

I'd say institute a 'Soylent Green' Program, but then people would be getting high off of their meals.  :-)
Logged
“Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and their freedoms”

“The best things in life are beyond money; their price is agony and sweat and devotion ... and the price demanded for the most precious of all things in life is life itself - ultimate cost for perfect value.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

Offline SSG Snuggle Bunny

  • Global Moderator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 23560
  • Reputation: +2480/-270
  • Voted Rookie-of-the-Year, 3 years running
Re: Czeched Out: The Losers of Prague's Drug Liberalization
« Reply #4 on: March 17, 2013, 08:04:21 AM »
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.
Logged
According to the Bible, "know" means "yes."

Offline NHSparky

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 24431
  • Reputation: +1280/-617
  • Where are you going? I was gonna make espresso!
Re: Czeched Out: The Losers of Prague's Drug Liberalization
« Reply #5 on: March 17, 2013, 08:06:11 AM »
Quote from: longview on March 16, 2013, 06:40:06 PM
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.
Logged
“Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian.”  -Henry Ford
Pages: [1]   Go Up
« previous next »