When did it become cool to be a drug addict?

[ExodusNirvana]

@JordanwiththeWiz just out of curiousity, what is the parents involvement in the guys that u speak of? Are they both actively involved? No father? Etc?

Im not denying in the least bit that the home is the most important factor, but to dismiss peer pressure and the influence of public figures with a large following and platform would be incorrect. Even youth with the best upbringing are susceptible to these things. I agree tho, it definantly starts with education in the home.

The involvement is telling their children the effects of these substances instead of scaremongering them. Everyone knows that by creating an item or concept that the child is not "allowed" to have will only make them want it more and be curious as to why it is forbidden.

The same thing goes with sex. If you education young women and men on the dangers of unprotected sex (STDs, STIs, Pregnancy) I guarantee teen pregnancy will plummet.

 

[ben anderson]

So basically you're saying the average dude trys lean a couple of times, then moves on to heroin since it gives u the same feeling, only cheaper?

no, bro. i said that's what happens to a lot of people( especially in Bmore) who are wanting to feel the same effects of lean, but are to poor to afford it/cut off supply. so they are lured into using heroin. just like lean it will be "just this one time or on occasion" then boom full blown addiction.

Never had cause to use that, thanks.

Secondly, 'breh', did I say that the AVERAGE dude is boosting pharmacies to support his high or did I simply say that the main ingredients in lean is flooding onto the streets from dudes WHO boost pharmacies and from drug dealers that once only catered to the WEED AND PILL market?

And the average dude can't afford lean , dude this ain't fukking Cocaine. The average dude ain't got friends with access or can afford to break off 200-300 and make the shyt last? I ain't trying to make it look like EVERYBODY out here getting sick on the shyt, but Lean is common as fukk now in the club scene, not to mention the dudes who out here selling bogus prescriptions and making people ill on some 'Arm and Hammer' type burn shyt.
Lastly, learn to COMPREHEND before you just start slamming insults on people, man, makes you look dumb as fukk or at the very least unable to hold your own in an argument/debate while trying to bring out your opinion with whatever facts/information you tryin' to drop, dude.

again we're using the word average bro. THE AVERAGE nikka is not pouring lean and putting up 200-300$ on the shyt. most nikkas just smoke weed, and if given the chance will try lean no doubt. you got to remember we are using the word average. what fukking average nikka you( age 15-25, that is in school with a part time job that doesn't sell drugs) is dropping 200-300 dollars on lean every week/2 weeks?. on top of buying shoes/clothes/weed? please get serious bro. to sip lean regularly you have to have a certain lifestyle. that's all im saying.

 

[Hybrinetics]

No, it's not. Weed isn't even a hard drug. Aspirin is actually a hard drug. You take enough of those shyts and see where you end up. Plenty of people have liver problems because of that shyt. Many people that take aspirin certainly don't mind taking other over the counter medication that leads to them being comfortable with drugs. That's why you have these companies promoting pills on tv and etc. They literally say that drugs like that are okay but are ready to say no to cocaine when that shyt can also be used as a painkiller too or wake someone's ass up if they're depressed or need energy.

I never said it was a hard drug. what does that or aspirin have to do with anything? in fact because its not a hard drug is exactly why its a gateway. you get bored and want more

 

[iFightSeagullsForBread]

Nobody outside of your usual tryhard, uninteresting, yokel does drugs to be cool.

And by no means am I an advocate of the "just try it" approach, but you have to remember that Americans love to indulge in food, materialism and sex, so to act like we wouldn't be a shocker to see an abundance of drug abuse of substances is your own naivety.

Me personally I like to get fukked up, gotta tall boy in my bag right now, bout to do some photography.

 

[KOBE]

Weed is not a gateway drug. The real gateway drugs are thsee damn chemicals in the foods that lead to diseases where people end up being prescribed meds from these pharmaceutical companies.

what chemicals in our foods are causing diseases that lead us needing antibiotics from pharmaceutical companies?


aside from uncooked meat, which isn't due to chemicals, it's due the harmful bacteria in the meats that need to be heated and killed so they can't fukk you up. I hope you're not talking about GMO's because anyone that has actually taken microbiology knows that shyt isn't causing diseases and is usually just increase size and the amount of nutrients in the product, not harm you. Not even shytty mcdonald's food causes disease, unless you consider obesity a disease.

 

[5n0man]

what chemicals in our foods are causing diseases that lead us needing antibiotics from pharmaceutical companies?


aside from uncooked meat, which isn't due to chemicals, it's due the harmful bacteria in the meats that need to be heated and killed so they can't fukk you up. I hope you're not talking about GMO's because anyone that has actually taken microbiology knows that shyt isn't causing diseases and is usually just increase size and the amount of nutrients in the product, not harm you. Not even shytty mcdonald's food causes disease, unless you consider obesity a disease.

Caffine is basically a highly addictive drug.

People are chugging down these energy drinks to get through the day and fukking up their liver, needing pain meds and shyt.

 

[KOBE]

Caffine is basically a highly addictive drug.

People are chugging down these energy drinks to get through the day and fukking up their liver, needing pain meds and shyt.

caffeine is bad for if you metabolize it slowly, actually really bad. if your body is adapted to metabolising it quickly then it isn't remotely that bad.

pain meds are given to people that need them. it's not the pharmacies fault that people choose to abuse them.

 

[Shadow King]

Wayne sparked it, Future ran with it

Let me stop you right there OP. The crack generation was late 60's/early 70's babies. Not us 80's babies. Carry on.

It wasn't exactly cool to be on crack though. Xanax, lean, pills etc are seen as recreation

 

[PinotNoir]

Let me stop you right there OP. The crack generation was late 60's/early 70's babies. Not us 80's babies. Carry on.

Exactly....thank you someone with some sense corrected op early on....wth a toddler or kid look like smoking crack

 

[5n0man]

caffeine is bad for if you metabolize it slowly, actually really bad. if your body is adapted to metabolising it quickly then it isn't remotely that bad.

pain meds are given to people that need them. it's not the pharmacies fault that people choose to abuse them.

Don't move the goal post breh, you asked what chemicals in our food is bad for you and leads to pharmaceutical help.

I gave you one that is bad for your health and highly addictive.

 

[PinotNoir]

Op....I don't know anyone born in the 1980s doing crack. It was I think the baby boomers on that stuff. My generation I saw mostly weed. But y'all new gen today....

 

[Dameon Farrow]

Dudes in here saying blame rap music and in the same breath saying the crack epidemic was in the 70s and 80s. Ya'll really want to have it both ways don't you?

What was the excuse before? Watch that question get dodged.

 

[KOBE]

Don't move the goal post breh, you asked what chemicals in our food is bad for you and leads to pharmaceutical help.

I gave you one that is bad for your health and highly addictive.

i didn't move goal posts, you just did. i asked what chemicals cause diseases, not what things are bad for you. caffeine doesn't cause diseases. it can cause heart problems and some other stuff, but not diseases.

 

[5n0man]

i didn't move goal posts, you just did. i asked what chemicals cause diseases, not what things are bad for you. caffeine doesn't cause diseases. it can cause heart problems and some other stuff, but not diseases.

Maybe the poster you originally quoted chose diseases as a bad example. Drugs don't usually cause diseases, but the topic of this discussion is drugs and addiction and I feel caffeine is relevant to the topic.

Caffeine can arguably become a gateway drug and they feed us this shyt.

 

[Swirv]

People will do drugs no

Troof.
The only cat I've seen talking about giving up Lean is Danny Brown

But then again I'm not at the forefront of rap news and shyt so I don't know who else might atleast address how fukked up this bullshyt is despite seeing so many artists and promoters of this Lean shyt fukking coughing to death in their sleep. "Oh naw, he had sleep apnea. I good. I ain't got shyt." But hey, look at Future? He straight and be dropping flames, talkin' about Codeine crazy.
fukk, outta here. This shyt about to get as bad as crack in a minute and it ain't even that readily accessible for the masses.

There was a point when he wanted to open up more rappers who front like they're on it but decided against it