It’s supposed to be diluted into manageable doses, and by being so concentrated it can be snuggled more easily.

American culture might as well have been designed to create drug addicts very very quickly.

Religion teaches people to have no bullshit meter, and have no basis for understanding if something is true or not, schools bend over backwards to accommodate shit like creationism. On top of that, we actively encourage other kinds of pseudoscience, and generally give kids 0 ways to tell if something is pseudoscience.

Pharmaceuticals are such a big business, that its basically impossible to put real limits on pharmaceutical companies, and so they are encouraged to train kids to take pills as often as possible, for any reason. And kids have no training or education in how to spot or defend against pseudoscience (kids are explicitly trained to accept pseudoscience).

Since Reagan, the gap between the wealthy and everyone else has been growing steadily, wages stagnate while the cost of everything goes up every year, inflation erodes the power of the middle class regularly, the country actively encourages predatory business practices, pushes kids into college debt that is more or less untenable.

Toxic masculinity is all over the place, telling kids to not talk to people, making men lonely, taking money for endless supplements that are supposed to give you a bigger dick, or make you more “vital” or improve your mood or w.e. Toxic masculinity also treats addiction as a personal failing to be ashamed of, instead of something to be treated, and teaches that mental health problems are a personal failing, not something to be treated.

Weed was demonized so heavily (mostly at the behest of the alcohol industry) that basically everything wound up at the same level. And then somebody takes weed, and they go “well, weed isn’t so bad, in fact, its kinda nice” and then turn around and wonder if what they gold told about harder drugs is as much bullshit as what they got told about weed.

Alcoholism is basically a way of life for large parts of the country, and its glamorized, protected, pushed on kids etc. Same with smoking.

Most addiction rehab is just pushing religion on people, very few have actual councilors. Rehab centers are such a big business that they actively encourage people to get addicted again so they can get more money to not treat them.

Kids are often abused for being gay, being trans, being bi, often by their parents or members of the church their parents make them go to. Many are kicked out of their homes, or sent to be tortured until they can pretend to be straight/CIS.

So you have kids who have no idea how to tell if somebody is selling them a bag of lies, who are trained to accept psuedoscience, who have been pushed to not listen to doctors, who are drowning in debt they cant get out of, who have had alcohol pushed on them from an early age, who have basically no prospects for the future, who have had pills pushed at them hard their whole life, whos parents are almost certainly addicted to either smoking or alcohol or harder drugs, who to rehab and aren’t actually helped. Kids with mental disorders go untreated, kids are kicked out of their homes or tortured into pretending to not be who they are.

Its not really surprising that we have so many new addicts every year.

Ideally you put less than that in the pill

Elites call it “Taking out the Trash”. They think of it like a public service.

Meanwhile, my city is opening a new casino. The administration were so proud of themselves at the ribbon cutting.

It’s not hard to make weed and shrooms and alcohol at home. It’s just that rich people don’t like losing their revenue streams. In some places we can even buy weed at stores now. Like when we used to be able to buy cocaine at stores.