Cerebus said:

Timmy84 said:

PCP is one of those drugs that will always frighten me... it sounds like it can really FUCK you up.

Pretty much anything labeled as a Schedule I or Schedule II drug can really fuck you up. Some of them can really fuck you up from one use (PCP and "Bath Salts" clearly fall into this category). Some of them fuck you up over time, particularly if they're abused (some IIIs and IVs won't do you any good that way, either).

And then there's weed, which is basically harmless, has almost no crime associated with it (accidents, deaths, etc.) beyond the fact that selling it is illegal. But it's still classified as a Schedule I drug, keeping our prisons overflowing with non-violent criminals. Fuck you Dow!

LOL I feel you on the latter paragraph.

Timmy84 said:

NDRU said:

It's very similar to the horror stories they used to tell us about PCP

PCP is one of those drugs that will always frighten me... it sounds like it can really FUCK you up.

There was this TV special on PCP in the 70's called something like "Angel of Death" where it told these stories of guys tearing their teeth out with pliers or biting a woman's nose off. Almost equally scary was the guy who was in a jail cell beating hallucinated rats off with his pillow in utter terror.

I have no idea how accurate those things are (having seen Reefer Madness) but it made a pretty big impression on me when I was five We did have one friend who was caught doing PCP, and it was the classic story--he was running nude through a parking lot, and it took 5 cops to subdue him.

I never understood why anyone wanted to do PCP

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NDRU said:

Timmy84 said:

PCP is one of those drugs that will always frighten me... it sounds like it can really FUCK you up.

There was this TV special on PCP in the 70's called something like "Angel of Death" where it told these stories of guys tearing their teeth out with pliers or biting a woman's nose off. Almost equally scary was the guy who was in a jail cell beating hallucinated rats off with his pillow in utter terror.

I have no idea how accurate those things are (having seen Reefer Madness) but it made a pretty big impression on me when I was five We did have one friend who was caught doing PCP, and it was the classic story--he was running nude through a parking lot, and it took 5 cops to subdue him.

I never understood why anyone wanted to do PCP

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Wow. Now I know why James Brown looked so tossed up here when they said he was on that stuff:

Makes sense.