74yo Granny Arrested for Drug Trafficking

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AndyKK wrote: Wed Apr 29, 2020 4:41 am
Marty wrote: Wed Apr 29, 2020 1:55 am Weed, opium, and the original methamphetamine are legit medications. Crystal methamphetamine is not.
Is Methamphetamine a Medicine?
Methamphetamine can be prescribed to certain individuals to treat specific medical conditions. While it is not administered or prepared in the same way that crystal meth is, and is largely different in its effects, these two types of drugs are still the same substance at their core, which is why doctors must be very careful in prescribing methamphetamine to patients.

https://amphetamines.com/types/methamph ... -medicine/
Crystal meth is just methamphetamine in a crystal form. Maybe Marty meant amphetamines?
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Just curious why everyone gets hit for Ice, and there is barley any news about Heroin or Opium. Few and far between. Is there less demand these days?
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Johno35 wrote: Wed Apr 29, 2020 4:13 am
truffledog wrote: Tue Apr 28, 2020 7:38 pm kind of reminds me about the toxic granny selling weed and opium in Vientiane riverside for more than 30 years..wonder if anybody else on the forum knew that lady and her messi shop
I knew her! Now there’s a Texas chicken next door and her shop is closed. I’ve always wondered what happened to her?
You know her..it was exactly next to that texas chicken store..last time i went there the entrance to her shop was barely recognizable.
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BiggieBig wrote: Wed Apr 29, 2020 10:59 am Just curious why everyone gets hit for Ice, and there is barley any news about Heroin or Opium. Few and far between. Is there less demand these days?
Ice is very popular, you do hear of the odd bust for heroin. Barely anyone uses opium in this age.
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SternAAlbifrons wrote: Wed Apr 29, 2020 3:32 am
truffledog wrote: Tue Apr 28, 2020 7:38 pm kind of reminds me about the toxic granny selling weed and opium in Vientiane riverside for more than 30 years..wonder if anybody else on the forum knew that lady and her messi shop
45 years ago i bought weed from grannies in the main market in Vientienne and went to a den for the occasional pipe of dreams.
Neither the granny or the the wizened old man who prepared the pipes were considered toxic.

They only turned "toxic" when america decided to switch an illegal and catastrophic real war partly financed by dope into a manufactured and catastrophic war against opium and pot.
The winner? Floods of heroin and now meth.
Who's toxic?
It was just her nickname. I did not say that i consider weed and opium toxic. She never "diversified" into non natural substances AFAIK.
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John Bingham wrote: Wed Apr 29, 2020 8:01 am
AndyKK wrote: Wed Apr 29, 2020 4:41 am
Marty wrote: Wed Apr 29, 2020 1:55 am Weed, opium, and the original methamphetamine are legit medications. Crystal methamphetamine is not.
Is Methamphetamine a Medicine?
Methamphetamine can be prescribed to certain individuals to treat specific medical conditions. While it is not administered or prepared in the same way that crystal meth is, and is largely different in its effects, these two types of drugs are still the same substance at their core, which is why doctors must be very careful in prescribing methamphetamine to patients.

https://amphetamines.com/types/methamph ... -medicine/
Crystal meth is just methamphetamine in a crystal form. Maybe Marty meant amphetamines?
Well yeah amphetamine is a general class with Methadrine as the trade name for one of them, possibly the strongest. They were used to suppress appetite, and to keep people awake on long work shifts and stuff like that. Not smoke-able in that form as far as I know. Crystal methamphetamine is smoke-able and thats where the problems start. Like the difference between powder cocaine and the smokeable crack cocaine.
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BiggieBig wrote: Wed Apr 29, 2020 10:59 am Just curious why everyone gets hit for Ice, and there is barley any news about Heroin or Opium. Few and far between. Is there less demand these days?
Not at all, H is big here too. funny you pointed that out. I did a while ago myself when I noticed it too. I know this is an old thread, but do a little googling and then put 2+2 together.
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