Matthew Perry's stepmother says 'Ketamine Queen' should get maximum sentence

Weird mine did Mississippi Queen. Clearly Weird Al needs to get after it

I heard it as Queen's Killer Queen

i should not be laughing this hard at reading this but now I cannot unhear billy ocean singing this now 

I got that gum commercial stuck in my head. Who are calling a Ketamine Queen you Lint Licker?

I'm sure he sang her name that way as well when he had his team call her up...

That brings a whole new meaning to "no more love on the run".

Omg me too

They can sentence the woman all they want. He would've still found a way to do drugs because he's an addict.

Celebrities have a addiction disease while addiction for the rest of us is our fault. Hypocrisy is unreal.

Right, and it’s only drugs never alcohol. Someone drunk drives and kills themself no one goes after the bartender or liquor store clerk like this. He made that decision.

Thank you for saying (what should be, but isn't) the obvious. As if he was more important than anyone else she dealt to.

Believe it or not, we also charge normal drug dealers.

Just to add to that, the celebrity has all the resources in the world to get clean. The drug addict on the street doesn't.

I agree but, wasn’t she a doctor? The one that said let’s see how much this moron will pay? I feel like if a doctor gives someone drugs illegally it’s worse because that person is still thinking they’re a doctor they know what they’re doing I’ll be fine. Kinda feels like she should be held to a higher standard.

Just like the Electric Sun Twenty

I usually agree but in this case I do think the book should be thrown at the doctors because they're in a trusted role granted special privileges. A doctor should not be a drug dealer and they should be held to a far harsher standard when they're found to be. And this case is particulalry unambiguous in that they knew exactly what they were doing.  I do in general find it weird that somehow drug dealing becomes akin to murder when the wrong person overdoses.

it shouldn't be an either or thing, we should hold both dealer and user to account. I take issue with how much harder they try to go after the dealer when it is a famous person that od's

I hate that this is so so so accurate/right.

*Sigh* The answer to this is to stop dragging addicts who are impoverished. Of course the he made his choices, but if you put lethal drugs on the street the first reaction should be "you need to be held accountable". Edit: Just so we are clear, if you sell potentially deadly substance outside the law, you should go to prison.

He would still be here if he didnt get in the hot tub.

No shit. That doesn’t mean the person who was dealing the dangerous drug shouldn’t also face consequences. The addict died, that was their consequence. The dealer enabled the behavior. Would they have done it anyway? Probably. But that isn’t the point is it?

I love Matthew, but self accountable people!!!

Agreed

This this this

Yea I’m prescribed ketamine. What possessed him to think going into a K-Hole in a f****** hot tub is beyond me. That shit can out you out. Unable to move much. Talk. Completely dissociated. There’s no way even for a second I’d consider using it, even at low doses, in a pool or hot tub. It’s also not like he wouldn’t feel it coming on. He made the choice to not only abuse Ketamine but do so in a dangerous situation.

The crazy one for me was Prince. Killed by street Xanax. wtf was Prince doing with all of his wealth and resources, getting staff to score street Xanax cut w fentanyl. So bizarre

Dealers should be charged with homeless people too. They just aren’t caught and few cares. But there is a reason why drugs are illegal and why dealing gets you higher sentences than possessing 

No addict blames their dealer when they OD unless they were given something they didn’t ask for.

You do realize it's normal for drug dealers to be charged in the overdose death of someone right?

Yeah for real I get the mother always wants to blame someone else but everyone who takes drugs owns that risk. No one else

It’s not they can find all. But of course drug dealers are tried to get caught regardless who the clients are 

The stated goal of the war on drugs is an objective failure. But the real reasons for the war on drugs has been a shocking success. Extreme sentences for minorities, generations of minorities dealing with legal issues, getting felonies so they cant vote, have hard time getting out of poverty, and much much more. Americans are the biggest consumers of illegal drugs in the world, so the war on drugs has always been a war on American citizens, IMO.

Until they start actually addressing the issues that lead to addiction (we’re going backwards fast with this admin) it’ll never go away.  The worse things get for the average citizen the more people there will be looking for a escape. Our country still hasn’t recovered from getting millions, and millions of people addicted to ridiculously addictive meds they were handing out like candy with very little oversight to suddenly cutting the majority of them off with very little warning, and that’s been like 15 years ago now. Anyone with any common sense could have predicted the outcome of that chain of events, but they did it anyways. The worst part is the drug companies that knowingly pushed drugs they KNEW were insanely addictive all got off with slaps on the wrist that amounted to less then 1 percent of the profits they made. Internal research from their own studies show they knew all the way back in the 70’s, and 80’s how dangerous that shit was, but they pushed it for everything they were worth anyways, and the government that was supposed to protect the public kept approving higher, and higher dosages. As someone who grew up in a area that was absolutely devastated by  the opioid crisis this topic infuriates me.

There are countries that have managed to keep drugs out of streets much better 

Personal accountability works BOTH ways here. You chose to break the law and distribute illegal substances then you should be held accountable. Weird how a lot of people in this thread only want the addicts to be held accountable and not the dealers who illegally exploit their addiction for financial gain. 

> Plasencia bought ketamine off Chavez and sold it to Perry for massively inflated prices - $2,000 (£1,500) per vial. "I wonder how much this moron will pay," Plasencia wrote in one text message, the court heard. Sangha worked with an intermediary, Erik Fleming, to sell 51 vials of ketamine to Perry's live-in personal assistant, Kenneth Iwamasa. Iwamasa repeatedly injected Perry with the drugs including on 28 October 2023, when he administered at least three shots that ultimately led to the actor's death. Personal accountability… sure. These people deserve to be in jail.

He was sober for years and only relapsed shortly before he died.

I mean, you're in an entertainment sublistnook so that's probably why you're seeing stuff about it. He was an entertainer so it's going to get posted here and it makes sense for someone related to Perry to say this. Not sure I really understand the issue personally.

They sold him exactly what he wanted to buy.

If Perry didn’t die and just burglarized houses to get ends for his addiction, would that also be the drug dealers fault? Where does the drug user’s personal responsibility for the their own actions and choices come in to play?

But the pharmaceutical companies “legally” sells drugs to people all the time and they die from them. I don’t see anyone going to jail. Every once in a while someone might win a class action lawsuit and thousands of people get a $20 Amazon gift card.

Free the Ketamine Queen If you get in w bath after doing K alone that’s your own stupid fault

War on Drugs has done a number on people's minds, seeing drug addicts as existing in a vacuum of moral failure, shits crazy. I also blame capitalism and how it twists our social relations to each other.