Sunday, January 30, 2005

Before And After I'll be the first to admit that I've never tried meth.  Never even been offered the stuff.  Guess I don't run in those circles. So since I've never tried or even seen someone who has tried it other than on Cops, I can't vouch for its effects.  But OregonLive.com can.  They've posted a series of photos of meth users called The Faces of Meth showing them early on in their meth addiction and then later by either months or years.  Some of the transformations are startling. Take Gwyneth Paltrow.  I honestly had no clue she was a meth user.  I thought she was busy pumping out kids with weird names.  See, I'm just way out of the loop.  But apparently she's been hitting meth awfully hard, and that meth hits back.  Hits so hard she forget to moisturize. There's a whole bunch of other before and after pics.  Some, to be honest, look better after their drug use.  Take for instance Glenn.  At first he looks like an avid wrestling fan.  But after a few years of meth, he looks like Iggy Pop.  Tanned.  Rugged.  Downright handsome. But he's the exception.  Most seem to hit new lows of humanity.  Which makes me wonder, if you're a meth user, or about to get started on it, undoubtably you have to have seen some of these people hanging around pumping their skeletal bodies full of the stuff.  What would make you want to do it, too?  To be cool like them? I don't get it.  But then I don't get American Idol, either. Related links: What is crystal meth? CNN:  Meth Use Explodes in Cities A Meth Diary:  Denise's nightmare 1:47:18 PM     |

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