wesmdow said:
honestly, who shoots up in the SAME vein OVER AND OVER AND OVER untill it gets black like that? thats not real life, thats anti-drug propaganda.
yea, it IS real life. bluelight and the group of drug users represented on here are far from the majority of addicts. dont act like this is shit everyone knows. yall should consider yourself priveleged enough to have this kind of information and have the intelligence to look out for yourselves. cuz most people aint doin that. reality is far from group of kids on a message board where the majority is upper middle class, educated, with plenty of resources for information and harm reduction, and a appetite for hard drugs. alot of addicts who aint in that nice-ass position dont know no better, and even some if they did, still wouldnt give two fucks. to say that showin someone shooting up in the same vein over and over til it collapses or gets infected is unrealistic is like sayin a movie about homeless people that shows muthafuckas pickin food outta the garbage is unrealistic. it gets worse, theres no limit to the stories you will hear junkies n x-junies tell. peopel do do the shit that you hear about on anti drug documentaires. not all of em, yea, but it happens.
no, tryin the drug once it wont turn everyone into that person, but many peopel who do get stuck on it really do live out the stereotypical life of a low life addict, dont forget that. what is this, "heroin users pride day" or somethin. i dont know what kinda peoples usin dope you know, but it aint like dopeheads are some poor, downtrodden, discriminated-against, oppressed minority, and dopehead culture is just a huge puddle of really nice, clean, reliable, trustworthy, kind, loving, law-abiding heart-of-gold muthafuckas who just got a bad rap cuz of some movies......
dont get me wrong i been a dopehead. i felt how it feels to be turned down at the pharm. counter just tryna get a syringe to shoot up clean. how it feels to get dirty looks and get picked up by cops for coppin, the day to day "missions" that you gotta accomplish just to get by. but a good amount of people dont make it thru all that with their integrity intact. im just sayin, as much good people who are out there using dope, well yea the majority of em are pretty beat people. sure drug users get a bad rep from people wrongly talkin shit about them. but dont forget that a LOT of them really do deserve that bad reputation right down to their toes cuz they are perfect examples of the stereotypes and thats just reality.
anyways, im ramblin, i just had to throw my 2 down. what you said about the movie bein unrealistic, its forgetting that the people on this board are the minority and not everyone hooked on heroin or other drugs is as informed/lucky/good at making the best decisions to keep your life from goin totally off track as yall are.....so dont look down on others like "OMG who would be so stupid to always use the same vein", cuz thats just as bad as makin fun of a 88 year old grandma for not understanding what "FTW" or "TIA" means on a message board. your reality is not everyone elses reality. shit im done....
anyways, the movies ok....
). i found the second book funnier than the first one as well, trainspotting is much more depressive.
