Shm - I understand where you are disagreeing with me but think it might come down to semantics.
I am merely using evil here as a label. I for one am of the persuasion that there is really no good or evil and think that things simply are.
In this case when referring to meth I could well dispense with the label 'evil' and change it to 'huge and real potential to cause massive harm to users, more so than other substances'. Again you might call this a value judgement but by outlining my previous (and ongoing) drug use I would very much like to highlight the fact I am being as objective as possible. Quite frankly in taking meth I could see things going down the pan rapidly, much more so than when I was smoking a fair amount of crack regularly.
Again I do understand and am aware that different substances affect people differently, of course I am sure there are some people that could handle recreational use and keep it that way (I know some although the line with this one is very fucking fine).
Therefore my use of the phrase 'inherently evil' is more a summary of the fact that I think for many people this drug could be pretty bad news. Again not everyone, but many... Before anyone jumps down my throat I would like to state again that I do know recreational users, it is possible just very fucking difficult and rare IMO.
Now with all due respect shm the fact you mentioned this has been implicated in a death surprises me after you defending it as being a safe drug - from what you have said there are clearly other circumstances surrounding this but surely the drug itself played a part?
I also don't quite agree/understand with how the wider view of the drug could affect people's psychoses - can you please elaborate on this point.
And finally the evil part also comes from the fact this was developed by a then nazi pharma company (no source so might be wrong on that point, love useless trivia, but not spreading misinformation so anyone feel free to correct that

) this last point a bit tongue in cheek
Please also excuse poor grammar and punctuation, am sending this from smart phone