"Frighteningly strong" is just a purposely stupid way of saying "Pure", otherwise known as won't poison you, other than the ways meth poisons you anyway.
Besides, most homeless people in my state are getting fucked over by fentanyl, not meth.
I have strangely, gotten down voted on other posts about homelessness when I bring up this fact. Living in LA, it’s plain as day, most of the tent encampments around the city are filled with addicts.
The homelessness crisis is really a drug epidemic, but not everyone seems to understand that yet I guess.
Homelessness causes meth (drug use) not the other way around. This is an oversimplification, but drug use is a coping mechanism not a cause.
There was a great article floating around around 10 years ago (can’t find it now) about being homeless for a year or so and the worst part of it (as I read it) was the HUGE stretches of time that you literally needed to kill because you don’t have access to most distractions.
Why would anyone want meth that's not strong? Weak meth could be cut with anything
Street meth is often quite pure (>90% is not unusual) and this has been true for decades. With that in mind, I can't really figure out what this alleged supermeth being referred to could be.
I think the trend here is pretty simple: high-purity crystal meth has become significantly cheaper over time, enabling people to engage in sustained binges at high doses that are both just deranging (imagine a week of no sleep) and particularly at high doses, neurotoxic. So, more meth-crazy people. Where I live, it's roughly 1/5th what it cost twenty years ago.