Been Sketching?

Actually, “sketching” has nothing to do with art when it is describing a state experienced when high on crystal meth. The word can only be defined as a meth user who is perceiving his/her environment wrong. Not necessarily bad, but incorrect.


















An incorrect perception when sketching could be something like the sketching I use to go through when I got high on ice (rocked-up methamphetamine): I believed there were words on paper, perhaps indentions left there by someone's pen or pencil tip while writing messages (probably secret messages) to . . . . who knows who the mysterious writer was addressing on my sticky notes? The point is, the words were not really there.

But when I put ice in my pipe, there were words on sticky notes, the white side of chewing gum wrappers, the papered side of the foil inserts in cigarette packs, dollar bills . . . . I spent a great deal of time trying to make the words show up more clearly so that I could read them.

Ink, paint, shoe polish, cigarette ashes rubbed into the paper, pencil lead swiped softly across the dollar bill . . . .


Basically, I was sketching. If your teenager or friend or loved one happens to use this term to refer to someone’s actions, question their purpose for using the word. Hopefully they are taking up a nice hobby in the arts.

If not, they may be talking about the drug which sports only a 6% success rate in successfully quitting. Wake up, parents and educators! Talk to your kids before the local meth dealer does.