mmmkay.

40 year-old tweaker. They should make her snort the ashes of that tree.

do look about 40 if they're lucky. For a meth head she actually looks pretty good.

What does it do to make people look so much older than they are?

physical addiction that makes a lot of chronic users abandon any form of self care methamphetamine use dries out the skin allowing sores to form and not heal properly, when that's added to the sunken eyes and easy bruising the effect is striking and shocking.

It also dries out the mouth leading to a condition known as meth mouth with rotting teeth and gums, this can in severe cases cause the jaw to kind of collapse inward at the mandibular joint, this makes the person look like one of those pictures of old people without their false teeth in.

The change in appearance can happen so fast that the addict is barely recognizable in less than a year.

I'm a doctor not a judge

being an old used to be pot smoker I was around some people who were meth heads and what is said that you replied to is true. I suspect the poisons in the homemade meth is what ages them

...the idea that home-cooking is the cause of the problem and not meth itself is a stupid myth. Its been addicting and killing people as long as its been around, even when the main supply was legitimate manufacturers. Though I wouldn't argue that screwed-up batches might not kill people in different ways.

It's amazing the physical damage that meth does to a person. I don't think it's possible to hide a meth addiction.

I would wager sexually abused in childhood.
Not an excuse for burning down a tree but explains so much about a life.

- John Belushi in "The Blues Brothers"

And yes, I literally mean Nazi tactics.

Stop.

Thanks for the backup.

Nice Resume pic!

Oh well.

It isn't as though prohibition has been a huge success. We're talking about harm-reduction, not advocating use.

This crap is nothing but poison, and what it does to people is tragic.

It's NOT victimless, or even limited to one victim. And selling the good, pure, legal government regulated shit down at the liquor store is NOT going to make it any less victimless.

Love and treat the users. Get them treatment. And destroy anyone who makes or sells it.

I hope she gets help, it's tragic about the tree.

She can still get better. At 26, she's still young enough to save herself and rescue what's left of her potential. It's hard but I've seen it happen a hundred times.

Sad about the tree, yes. But I'm thankful it was only a tree, and not a house with people in it. This coulda been way worse.

One of the world's oldest Cypress Trees at 3500 years, that's a lot of irreplaceable emotional and physical history, a living time capsule of sorts.

She's young, I hope she gets the help she needs.

I visited the tree when I lived in Seminole County, Florida. This is horrible!

If she wanted more illumination, it seems like walking away from the tree would have made more sense than burning it down. That's meth for you though. People using meth usually don't make too much sense.

as tweekers go, she doesn't look too far along. at least her physical attributes. it's pretty obvious that shit has effected her ability to reason.

Yea absolutely...what a waste

I've smelled it unfortunately, whew! Though I am a supporter of making drug abuse a medical and not a legal problem, meth seems to be in a class by itself, because it is so poisonous.

Seriously. Any guesses?

By a hurricane. Plus, there has been a very long drought in that area, so it was likely pretty dry.

One of the best things to use to start a fire is "punk" or partially rotted wood that is very dry. If that tree had a rotten middle - and they can be rotten down to the ground (or water) level, it could have had a chimney effect.

Yep - it was hollow:

Legalize them NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I don't like the idea of a teen that gets caught with a few ounces of pot for his or her personal use being dragged through the criminal justice system and potentially thrown in jail. But before I would support decriminalization of other drugs, I would need to see research that shows that using those drugs in controlled amounts does not lead to addiction and heavy dependency.

And the prime delivery method of nicotine, tobacco, kills hundreds of thousands of Americans every year..