Synthetic Drugs Displace Marijuana

[Hugh_Lebowski]

4. It's not really 'the market' ... fentanyl is a friggin' shitty opioid for abusers

In every sense of the word ... the only thing it's really good for is (relatively briefly) keeping you out of withdrawals.

The high is shit, and it's short, and it has a high degree of respiratory depression, esp relative to the quality of the high.

And of course the 'street-grade' variety is friggin dangerous AF.

The "market" ... would much prefer the -codones and -morphones ... or for some, of course, heroin ... those are actual dope.

But they're locked down pretty tight/way harder to get they were early in the century. So people settle for the analog of 'dry brown dirt weed that came in from Mexico stuffed into a spare tire' ... cause there's not a lot of options.

Harshly locking down on legal prescriptions of Rx-grade, real opioids ... turns out ... is killing more people because the substitute is much more dangerous.

Not to mention often making life hell for legitimate pain patients who don't buy illegal drugs.