03. Alcohol



Legal steadily since the twenties, when the government had the crazy idea to ban this braincell-shedding national pastime and deny itself unruly profits, booze is as potentially dangerous as it is ubiquitous. At any public setting (even Starbucks is getting in on the rocket), alcohol is usually available for purchase and without much restraint so much as the register keeps chiming (and as long as a designated vehicular man-saver is selected). While it seems unfair that its proven hazards outweigh those of marijuana and still maintains the legal status the plant does not, we won’t soon have a profitable poison at quite the summit which liquor has found itself. Budweiser will be forever both the king of beers and the king of the drug hill.

01. Prescription Drugs



This is the most sinister of all the addiction-caterers in that you’re not even safe from your own doctor. Most every doctor will find a way to peddle a pharmaceutical drug to a person with some kind of condition, real or imaginary; it makes their job easier and feeds the business (i.e. the healthcare industry) that cuts them a check to be a drug-dealer in disguise. Most prescription drugs, after all, are just synthetic alternates to what unrefined, impure substances flow through the streets without requiring an RX slip. (Oxycontin is content-wise no different from heroine and consequently is just as addictive, abused as the poppy-based original.) And with new disorders, diseases, and conditions fabricated on a daily basis, there will always be a demand to meet the raid-proof supply.