It's always the pretty ones.

Two millenniums and some change ago,  Jesus married Mary Magdalene, then he died for our sins.  Fast forward to 1893 and methamphetamine makes its world debut in Japan.  In 1919 crystallized methamphetamine was synthesized by pharmacologist Akira Ogata via reduction of ephedrine using red phosphorus and iodine.  Eighty-nine years later and the shits been so perfected throughout the decades it gets a TV premier.

Effects include: euphoria, anxiety, increased alertness, increased energy, increased self-esteem, increased self-calories, increased excitation, increased irritability, increased aggression, excessive feelings of power, and paranoia.

Now earlier today I found out that crystal meth is bad for the environment!  How this escaped me I don't know, but apparently, and in this case appearance does actually matter, 26 year old, "model" Sara Barnes burned down a 3,500 year old bald cypress tree nicknamed "the Senator".  Barnes turned herself in to the Florida Police, admitting that she and a friend climbed into the tree with a friend and in an accidental meth smoking session, managed to burn down one of the world's oldest trees.

For her crime, Barnes got hit with a third degree felony, intentional burning of land, as well as possession of methamphetamine with the intent to sell and possession of drug paraphernalia by the Seminole County Sheriffs Office.

And I thought about it, because I think about stuff like this, and there isn't much difference between a tree and a person- trees can think just like you-so this is kinda like she murdered a really really old person.  That's not cool.