Topic: drug trafficking

Traditional middle class jobs with career prospects replaced by a lower-paid, less stable workforce– perhaps more vulnerable to outside influence?

Think physician practices and pharmacies and specialty clinics who began with a lucrative sideline that may now be their main source of revenue.

Even if society miraculously eliminated its problems,  some people would still be attracted to drugs.

Once such substances get a foothold in a region, they’re extremely hard to eradicate.

Maybe they reasoned that even if they were caught out, they could avoid the worst penalties.

That industry will do everything in its power to create and sustain the biggest possible population of chronic stoners.

Maybe you’ll even suggest the medication. And the marketing team wants you to leave the doctor’s office with a prescription for that med.

I’ve been expecting a public relations counterattack on behalf of, and probably funded by, the pharmaceutical industry.

It’s great for headlines but I hope we don’t dance too far down that particular garden path.

It’s also not too difficult to create a ‘homemade’ variety using raw ingredients purchased on the dark web and a common pill press.