\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\ncyberpunk futures always have crazy new drugs, which is funny as the majority of people who aren\u2019t VICE columnists seem perfectly happy with the old ones.
How the heck are Cyberpunks supposed to get Cyberhigh in the Cyberfuture if there aren\u2019t sweet-ass Cyberdrugs though?
\noh no, Cybercops!
\nI feel like this betrays a lack of knowledge of the actual drug scene, because let me tell you homeskillet: there are new drugs. It\u2019s true they\u2019re more prevalent in club, rave, and festival/hippy scenes than in the average crack house or meth den, but in any case new designer drugs/research chemicals are getting churned out pretty constantly.
\n(Also, it\u2019s worth noting that a lot of what people take under the general heading of, say, \u201cheroin\u201d is actually a variety of different opiates depending on location, circumstances, and price range. Ditto amphetamines, benzos/tranquilizers, and so on. So some of these probably will be new-ish drugs, but the people using them may not know that, and the wider world often doesn\u2019t either.)
\ncome on though, varieties of opiates can\u2019t compare with neuroin or nuke or whatever cyberpeeps are getting cyberfucked up on
\nSure, but we\u2019re not able to project our bodies into a perfect VR internet, either. Give it time.
\nA Juul is a cyberpunk joint
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Yeah setting aside that vape rigs are like Star Trek TOS props as imagined by lowrider culture, IIRC in the \u201880s William Gibson stuff people were just doing Dexedrine and amphetamines and benzodiazepines and other \u201870s-ass stuff maybe projected a little into the future (plus ganja-smoking space Rastas), I think the exciting new drug thing was more \u201890s WIRED/Mondo 2000 technoshamanism
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