You know that place between sleep and awake

funpowderplot:

please confirm your safety by logging onto facebook chat IMMEDIATELY because nobody knows where you are and you haven’t replied to our texts and I’m worried about you/clearly neurotic and obsessive. Mr Naeem wasn’t even hilarious when he came to get rent :( it’s because you weren’t there.

 I am safe my darling! I’m in Lancaster and the signal is sooo bad!I sent you a facebook message baaaaaabe :)

love you xxx

The other night we were watching the news and it came up about the Polish Prime Minister had died.

My Grandpa says, “I know him.”

“Do You Dad? How’s that?”.

He replied, “He was here the othernight having dinner with Frank Sinatra, he was feeding Nannie.”

AMAZING

This drug is so unbelievably ready available and cheap.

It is an instant obvious high, which alike Ecstasy, MDMA and Amphetamines gives a feeling of openness, empathy towards others and alertness. Any quantity of the substance can be purchased online with a credit or debit card. Simple. Methadrone is this generation’s answer to the Second Summer of Love; around the late eighties, during the surge of Acid House music and the rave parties soaked in Ecstasy. The Second Summer of Love, not exclusively but predominantly, was partaken by adults (Late teens+) and has been hailed as time of a decline in football hooliganism.

Now during the ‘Third Summer of Love’, which I originally thought was just a student craze. But the more I see, hear, read and watch about this drug; it is becoming clear that a great deal of the users of Methadrone are incredibly young.

I have witnessed groups of young teenagers; twelve, thirteen, fourteen, on Methadrone, talking about their experiences on it, declaring how good it is on Facebook. I am under no impressions that this is the only drug that such young people have taken.

However, something needs to be done to inform and educate these children; merely criminalising and illegalizing the substance does not achieve this.

The instant, explosive hit makes your heart race, your emotion run in every direction and peaks very quickly therefore sending you on the downward spiral at the same speed. So what do you do? Take more of course!

I am greatly aware that drugs such as Methadrone can affect different people, differently. But, concentrating on the young consumer; at twelve to fifteen they are entering puberty, hormones, body changes, they are still transitioning as a person from being a child to a young adult. Won’t these drugs; as alien substances attaching to and attacking the cells of the young person’s ever developing body, have a direct effect on there development into adulthood?

In this day and age something should have been implemented to address the younger consumers involvement in this Methadrone craze from the beginning. Ground-level intervention; maybe police officers could have approached the many youths, that frequent Britain streets of an evening or have gone into schools/youth centres and somewhat educated them of this drug. Instead, they’re putting up speed cameras and hanging around shopping centres giving out litter fines. (Sorry sorry sorry, I do not mean to suggest the Police are useless)

So what are the long-term affects on the young consumer? Disturbing as it is we don’t know. Not one generation preceding this has indulged so dramatically and frequently in such a cocktail of recreation.

Time will tell.