Human ingenuity.

Joe D’s comment below about Obama blotter acid reminded me of another favorite government publication of mine: the DEA’s Microgram Bulletin.

If you ever want a catalog of all the ingenious ways people try to get high, spend some time going through back issues. The June issue even has some snazzy illustrations of “Ecstasy” tablets (Homer and Bart Simpson, Obama, Autobots, and others.)

It isn’t that I drop acid, smoke the chronic, or take X and go to a lot of raves; I’m fascinated by Microgram because of the discussions of analytic chemistry, plus this will make good background material if I ever wind up writing that series of crime novels I’ve sketched out.

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