How Sick is This?

Beware the candyman kids! If you see him coming run far and fast cause crystal meth now comes in magically delicious flavors including strawberry, chocolate and cola. The new flavors are of course a marketing ploy to get kids to tried the sh*t.

From USA Today:

Reports of candy-flavored methamphetamine are emerging around the nation, stirring concern among police and abuse prevention experts that drug dealers are marketing the drug to younger people.
The flavored crystals are available in California, Nevada, Washington, Idaho, Texas, New Mexico, Missouri and Minnesota, according to intelligence gathered by Drug Enforcement Administration agents from informants, users, local police and drug counselors, DEA spokesman Steve Robertson says.

But even as law enforcement officials rightfully warn people about the marketing scheme, they fail to note that use of meth is on the downslide.

As methamphetamine’s popularity has waned, drug dealers have to create new ways to market it, says Scott Burns, deputy drug czar for state, local and tribal affairs for the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy. The number of people 12 and older who used methamphetamine for the first time in the previous year decreased from 318,000 people in 2004 to 192,000 people in 2005, according the National Survey on Drug Use and Health by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

“The traffickers know the word is out about what a horrible drug this is,” Burns says.

“They are having a tough time selling this product, especially to young people. What do people in marketing do when they have a tough time selling a product? They have to come up with some sort of gimmick.”

I am all for wringing the drama out a situation, but with the horrifying effects of meth usage you don’t have to embelish. You can just tell the truth and that’s scary enough. Fomenting a drug panic may play well in the media, but when kids see others using and don’t see the hyped up images that authorities are throwing around it makes them think that the warnings are nothing more than an attempt to prevent them from having a good time. Be straight with people about what a f-ed up drug meth is and leave it at that.

Here is an ad by the Montana Meth Project in which a young guy gets his girlfriend to have sex with an older stranger for meth.

For more info on meth, visit the Montana Meth Project.