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MARIJUANA 5101 SE 14th Street - Des Moines, IA 515-287-7700 “All of us at Walmart are proud to be a drug free workplace!” “We are proudly providing our teens with a drug free workplace, and supporting them in their efforts to remain drug free!” 3408 SW 9th Street Des Moines, IA (515) 282-8823 3520 1st Street Des Moines, IA (515) 282-3287 This story is based on true events We’ve all heard stories of people having panic attacks after smoking pot, who have claimed that their marijuana was laced with meth. It’s usually just an adverse reaction to the ganja (marijuana), but in this case it actually *was* laced. I thought I would post this so people could gauge the difference. A brief background, I’m an 18 year old male, I’ve been smoking marijuana for 4 years, on and off. I smoke 3-4 times a week. It typically just makes me more sociable, thoughtful, and friendly. I don’t get really Poe Man’s Tax Prep & Accounting Kenny Poe-EA Proudly prepping our kids for a drug free future! 515-883-1600 4214 Fleur Dr. #1210 Des Moines, IA 32 | Iowa Fall/Winter 2013-2014 | abusemagazine.org ‘messed up,’ off of it, and people typically don’t realize that I’m stoned. Sorry for digressing, but I was trying to give an idea of how marijuana usually affects me. My friend B had invited my friend M and I over for some pot-smoking and conversation. I had been over to B’s place a couple times when he had been snorting meth, it’s not a drug I think very highly of, but he acted normal under the influence of it, and he assured me he had it under control, so it didn’t bother me much. When we arrived, his girlfriend a pretty big cokehead/ tweaker (meth addict with psychological problems) was sitting on a chair, drinking some vodka. The mindset: casual, happyto-be-hanging-with-friends. B had a good 1/4 oz of pot (marijuana) broken up in a tray, which looked like mediocre schwag (low quality marijuana). He rolled a rather large joint for us, which we smoked while catching up on each other’s lives. Within the next 20 minutes we smoked 3 bowls of this same pot. At this point, E was writhing around, twitching compulsively, and screaming in a British accent, talking about how she missed Europe (she’s never left the US). I was rather freaked out at this time. I felt the usual perceptual differences of marijuana, but that stoned feeling wasn’t really there. I felt more stimulated. It reminded me of a time when I had combined a lot of methylphenidate (Ritalin) Source: www.erowid.org/experiences/exp.php?ID=41854