Theres something really stupid happening here in australia at the moment. You can get two different kinds of methamphetamine. Theres the 'speed' the stuff thats usually not smokeable, most people eat it or inject it and it looks different to shards, sometimes its gluggy, sometimes its powder or rocks. Anyway base or speed samething is considered to be quite safe and different to ice. Then you have the crystal meth which is referred to here as Ice. Ice is considered really hardcore and its not known by the average drug user that ice and speed/base/gas are the same drug, just different purities and cuts/impurities. Base is also a great deal cheaper than ice and theres a different sub-culture surrounding each drug. Almost everyone I know has come into contact with base here(dont take the word "base" to mean freebase either coz its not freebase) and most people dont look down apon its use, not many people around here at all have come in to contact with ice and its pretty hard to get, even if it was easy to get people wouldnt know what to do with it, they'd probably put it on a bowl of pot and completely waste the crystal.
There are little groups of ice users that have formed though, im smoking up right now as a matter of fact but this stuff came from a dealer who lives hours away, my friends got it, ice is simply more scarce around here or at least I dont know who has it, I dont hang around drug users much anymore. Its probably the more high up people who are in the know who use ice around here, speed could be obtained easily within half an hour I reckon. Thats probably what led me to injecting so early in life. The fact that snorting or eating meth isnt the best method and because it wasnt smokeable I just chose IV as the only other method to get maximum effects. Its weird though ive gone from IV'ing speed and ice on the odd occasion to mostly smoking ice and rarely injecting anything.
