posted on Jul, 1 2010 @ 07:28 AM
Come on people, don't any of you remember the First Axiom of Psychopharmacoeconomics? In financial boom times, uppers and central nervous system
stimulants like speed, MDMA, etc. are popular (i.e., pyschedelics in the "go-go" years of the Wall Street Conglomerate boom of the late 60s; the
coc aine craze of the 80s; the cocane, meth and ecstasy years of the late 90s and 00s, etc etc.). Meanwhile, when the economy hits the skids, the
downers always come into vogue (sedatives, barbituates, "reds," and heroin in the early 70s recession; 'ludes around the time of the second oil
shock later in the 70s, Kurt Cobain OD'ing on smack in the early 90s grunge recession, etc.).
Forget coc aine. I'd say the new trend, given our various economic woes would be follow the predictable pattern, and the pendulum will swing
back to the downer side. Plus, it doesn't exactly bode well that we are involved in a very sketchy, very non-transparent entanglement with
Afghanistan, where something like 90% of the planet's opium crop is right up in everyone's face and there are a lot of men with guns doing who knows
what it. Very murky picture of what's going on over there with that. Let's see, what are the odds of super-pure heroin or black-tar opium suddenly
flooding the developed world...let me think, let me think...