“Drugs are climbing, booze is falling”

 

1. Just switching norms, not fixing anything.
   Booze is old-school – all about toxic masculinity, drunk fights, shame.
   Drugs (or “therapy stuff”) show up with a new look:
   microdosing, LSD guides, biohacking, “opening your creativity.”
   Same addiction, just dressed up in fancy words.

2. High-class hedonism.
   Booze is cheap, for the masses. The “new drugs” are for the upper tier.
   Not some needle junkie, but the psychonaut in a startup, taking tiny LSD hits or mushroom extracts to sharpen focus.
   Sobriety and buzz merged into one: optimized pleasure.

3. The control trick.
   Booze is obvious – you reek, act weird, easy to catch.
   New psychoactive stuff is subtle, invisible, measured: a pill, a drop, a sachet.
   Society looks “cleaner,” but it’s just the same old mind tweak, packaged differently.

• The shiny bullshit of the e-cig industry