backhoeboogie
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inyati13":2pqrznpq said:backhoeboogie":2pqrznpq said:Meth is ruining a whole lot of lives. It is a very lucrative enterprise that is not much different than alcohol was in the prohibition days. Supply and demand are always factors that influence availability of anything.
The playing field is not level. My daughter went to prison for a year and a half for possession of $10 worth. Kids in the cities get 6 months for manufacture.
I have sat in celebrate recorvery sessions and listened. I have listened intently to many. Everyone of the addicts had a story. There is no common thread as to why each chose the path they chose. Successful people make the mistake. Losers make the mistake. Wealthy and poor. Beautiful and not so beautiful people. There is no common thread, only a common problem.
My daughter did her time. She has been clean. Taking drug tests weekly. She's been on the wagon for 2 1/2 years now. Doing all the right things. Now she faces federal charges for "conspiracy" coming out of a drug task force investigation. The "conspiracy" charges span from 2011 up until March of 2014. 3 years of that time she was in state custoday or in their program. You cannot claim double jeopardy because the feds level a different charge.
A drug task force sounds like they are doing good if they net 50 arrests. 250 sound even better. If you have a previous possession charge, you are toast.
I have written long posts before. Meth is terrible. Has wrecked lives, marriages, and families. I am living proof and I have never touched the stuff.
As of now I am paying over $1,000 a month in daycare and raising two wonderful grandsons. I had not planned on this at my age. Forget the cost, think of the energy it takes. Baseball practice, basketball practice, school functions..............
The boys do not understand why they don't have a dad to do things with. I tell them they have me. I was married 33 years to their grandmother. They don't understand that either.
If you are an atheist, I don't wish this on you. Nor do I wish it on anyone else.
Mostly just blessed that I am able to give those two boys a life. Really glad my new wife is embracing it with me.
I hope none of you walk a mile in these shoes.
bhb: I lack your up close and personal perspective. All I know is that it is wrecking society around here.
I raised that daughter. Raised her right. When she was on meth, I have no idea who she was. She was no longer the kid I knew.
That is what meth does. Kids steal from their loved ones to get a fix and then hate themselves for it, if they are caring at all.
I did not lose her to suicide. Friends have lost theirs.
I now have hope. At one point, all hope was lost for this kid.
I truly hope you never have first hand knowledge.