Sgt. Floyd
Well-Known Member
That was a good way to pass some time.....
Anyway, I went to a dinner with my dad tonight at a monthly farmer's organization meeting. The guest speaker was the local sheriff and he gave a talk on farm related stuff; liabilities and a few other things.
The biggest thing he talked about was drugs. He claimed that marijuana was a close relative to the poppy plant that originated in Mexico and was introduced to the US in the 70's and was used by young white males, "You know, mostly long hair type."
He talked about crack. Nothing really extreme on that one except that it was just black males that used.
Then he talked about meth which is a real problem in the area much like the rest of the US. He claimed that meth, when ingested, bypasses everything, lungs; digestive track; even the blood stream, and magically goes directly to the brain and "attacks" the memory.
He said spice was just an ordinary incense meant to smell good until people figured out you could eat it to get meth like effects.
Then he said that bath salts were the new scourge. Apparently some guy shot and killed a deputy around here after being up a few days on the stuff. Which, that stuff seems pretty bad and it seems like people are justing getting in over their head with a substance they don't understand. A convenience store that sells it had an armed robbery where the burglar stole a bunch from the store. The same night some people broke into the same store to steal the bath salt supplies. The sheriff made sure to point out that the people selling the stuff where foreigners.
Last, he passed around the "bag of drugs" so everyone could see the stuff up close. There were two hang man scales in the bag. I leaned over to my dad and said "I used to have one of those. I've got a digital one now." He looked back and smiled.
The best part of the whole night was the reaction from the crowd of mostly over 50, rural people. All these old women had a look of shear terror on their faces.
tl:dr
I heard my first in person refer madness speech and it was angering and funny at the same time.
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Anyway, I went to a dinner with my dad tonight at a monthly farmer's organization meeting. The guest speaker was the local sheriff and he gave a talk on farm related stuff; liabilities and a few other things.
The biggest thing he talked about was drugs. He claimed that marijuana was a close relative to the poppy plant that originated in Mexico and was introduced to the US in the 70's and was used by young white males, "You know, mostly long hair type."
He talked about crack. Nothing really extreme on that one except that it was just black males that used.
Then he talked about meth which is a real problem in the area much like the rest of the US. He claimed that meth, when ingested, bypasses everything, lungs; digestive track; even the blood stream, and magically goes directly to the brain and "attacks" the memory.
He said spice was just an ordinary incense meant to smell good until people figured out you could eat it to get meth like effects.
Then he said that bath salts were the new scourge. Apparently some guy shot and killed a deputy around here after being up a few days on the stuff. Which, that stuff seems pretty bad and it seems like people are justing getting in over their head with a substance they don't understand. A convenience store that sells it had an armed robbery where the burglar stole a bunch from the store. The same night some people broke into the same store to steal the bath salt supplies. The sheriff made sure to point out that the people selling the stuff where foreigners.
Last, he passed around the "bag of drugs" so everyone could see the stuff up close. There were two hang man scales in the bag. I leaned over to my dad and said "I used to have one of those. I've got a digital one now." He looked back and smiled.
The best part of the whole night was the reaction from the crowd of mostly over 50, rural people. All these old women had a look of shear terror on their faces.
tl:dr
I heard my first in person refer madness speech and it was angering and funny at the same time.
H
