Our
main story tonight concerns drugs. We've
talked about all sorts of them before,
from opioids to compounded drugs to
psychedelics to opioids again to lethal
injection drugs to opioids for a third
and final time to, of course, a bonus
opioid story. But tonight, we're going
to talk about so-called gas station
drugs. You know, the colorful products
with weird names you tend to see behind
the counter at gas stations, convenience
stores, and smoke shops. It's a whole
weird world of poppers, whippetss,
questionable supplements, and boner
pills. And if you are wondering who buys
those last ones, I'll let this
convenience store clerk fill you in.
>> This is why I got to leave Circle K
soon, bro. For real. Like, so today I
was just chilling, right? Working,
whatever. This white dude come up. He's
like, "Yo, you got any any dick pills?
Like rhino dick pills?" And he did this
with his arm. I was like, "We had
these." He's like, "Fuck it, bro. Let me
take him." I was like, "All right, bet."
And while he was paying and he he
opened it and he he popped one. He went
and he popped one in his mouth.
And I was like
and he was like, "Shit." And then he
popped another one. I was like, "Oh my
What are you doing, bro? Why the
did you take two in a public area
like this? You couldn't go home? You
couldn't wait till you go home? Like,
what the is going on, son?"
>> Yeah, all valid questions. And I will
say after hearing that, I won't feel
nearly as bad the next time I open a
Gatorade at the register before paying.
Look, I'll pay FOR IT IN A SECOND, BUT
trust me, this could be way weirder.
But again, it's not just boner pills.
These products are part of a sprawling
industry, and they promise everything
from increased energy to pain relief.
And while you might assume that they're
just snake oil, that's not necessarily
true. Some of these drugs can be
actively dangerous, presenting risks of
addiction, just like controlled
substances. And here's some who've been
addicted to them tell it. The very fact
that that's been allowed to happen is
pretty infuriating.
>> It's a common sight in gas station
convenience stores across the country.
So-called natural supplements on display
>> starting in like 2015
2014 had an opiate aisle.
>> This is what Hooked looked like for
Brandon. 250 bottles consumed in one
month at the height of his addiction.
There is so much that is alarming there.
From the notion of a gas station having
an opiate aisle to the fact that I'm
just going to say it, that is too many
tiny bottles of anything to go through
in a month. Whether it's gas station
supplements, airplane bottles of vodka,
or even travel size Olay body wash.
First, buy full size. Don't live like
this. But also, that's just too many
bottles. HOW DIRTY ARE YOU GETTING? I'm
worried about you. And the thing is,
stories like that are becoming more
common as people increasingly seek these
drugs out. For some, it may be for
recreational use because these products
generally don't get detected on drug
tests, but for others, it may be because
they don't have access to health care,
have a mistrust of mainstream science,
or are self-treating anxiety,
depression, fatigue, or opioid
withdrawal. The problem is though, these
drugs exist in a regulatory wild west.
And in part, that is by their own
design. Many of the companies behind
them try to evade regulation with
creative labeling, marketing them with
language like for research purposes only
or not for human consumption. But the
most common tactic is simply labeling
the product a dietary supplement. And
that is because this 1994 law exempted
the supplement industry from nearly all
federal regulations. We actually talked
about that before in our piece on Dr.
Ross and nutritional supplements, which
by the way ended with Steve Pashmi tap
dancing in front of a kid's marching
band. Just trust me, it made sense at
the time. But thanks to that law, there
is currently no central process whereby
products calling themselves supplements
are tested or approved before they hit
the shelves. And while there are some
rules they have to follow regarding
ingredients and marketing, many simply
ignore them. All of which means the FDA
and other regulators are essentially
playing an impossible game of catchup.
And the result of that can be a guy with
a pile of bottles on his lawn wondering
how the that was allowed to happen.
And that's actually the least of the
consequences here. So given all of that,
tonight let's look at gas station drugs.
And to do that, we're going to focus on
three areas in particular. Sexual
enhancements products, a substance
calledratum and its associated compound
70 and TNT. And let's start with the
sexual enhancement stuff. Products like
boner pills can be hard to miss,
especially because they often have
over-the-top names and packaging
involving an animal. For instance,
there's Black Panther, Blue Panther,
Black Horse, The Goat, Super Bowl,
Rammit, Gold Lion, Super Cheetah,
Anaconda, Rhino 8, Rhino 11, Rhino 69,
of course, Rhino 96, Rhino 99, and my
personal favorite, Boda Bears, which
apparently contains a proprietary Bona
Bear blend, a cursed series of words,
and which features this image, which
looks LIKE WHAT A BEANIE BABY WOULD if
it walked in on its parents having sex.
But boner pills actually demonstrate
pretty effectively the extent to which
gas station drugs can be made by just
about anyone. And I do mean anyone.
>> It's not like there's a single company
making all of these dick pills and
filling them with drugs. What actually
happens is that the empty packaging for
many of the most common sexual
enhancement supplements gets purchased
online from China. Then the packages get
filled by an unknown number of entities.
Finally, the pills show up in stores
around the country. To show how easy it
is to get into the dick pill business,
we ordered a sample of empty rhino
packaging from Alibaba. Now, if we
wanted to, we could fill them with
oregano or pop rocks or dirt. We could
also fill the pills with natural herbal
supplements as the labels advertise or
pharmaceuticals, both of which are sold
on Alibaba. Yeah, that's not ideal, is
it? You don't want a pill's ingredients
to be essentially dealer's choice. And
you would never tolerate that level of
variance in other products. You would be
justifiably annoyed if it turned out
that some Cadbury Cream eggs were filled
with marinara sauce instead of what
they're supposed to be filled with, the
Easter Bunny's thick thick And if
you if YOU THOUGHT THAT CLIP WAS
EXAGGERATING, just watch what happened
when they bought what looks like the
same pill from two different stores
right here in New York. The packaging on
these products was exactly the same. But
when we opened the pills, it was evident
there was inconsistency between the
contents, colors, and textures.
>> Yeah, those two powders are clearly very
different. One just looks like sand,
while the other looks more like cremated
Snoopy. And obviously, I hope it's not
that. Unless that is Snoopy's will
specifically directed his heirs to shove
my remains into a gas station dick bill,
in which case I'm thankful his final
wish was fulfilled. Woodstock. May his
memory be a blessing. The point is,
these pills could contain literally
anything, including, as they just said,
actual pharmaceutical ingredients,
though importantly not necessarily in
careful or consistent dosages. Some
rhino pills have been shown to contain
selenaphil and tadalapil, the respective
active ingredients in Viagra and Seialis
and sometimes at extremely high doses,
which isn't good given that both drugs
can lower blood pressure to dangerous
levels, particularly if they interact
with other medications. So, someone who
can't get from their doctor for good
reason might turn to these supplements
without knowing they're about to get a
mega dose of it. One pill was found to
contain 14 times the amount of active
ingredient contained in a seialis pill.
Meanwhile, others were found to include
dyes and filler like blue printer ink
and drywall. So, on one hand, these
pills could end up poisoning you. But on
the other, if your printer runs out of
blue ink, just jam a few boner pills in
the cartridge and you can finish
printing off your Smurf porn. And
because the FDA is basically par, you
know, stop stop. Uh, stop stop. Take it
down. Take it down. Because the FDA is
basically powerless before a problem
emerges, the main action it often takes
is to simply offer public warnings to
avoid certain products. That is why you
can come across an official FDA release
like this one which reads FDA continues
to advise consumers not to purchase or
use Schwing products, which is
embarrassing enough even before you
realize that the release included this
image of the packaging featuring the
brand's mascot seen here answering the
question, "What if Alfred E. Newman got
heavily into gooning.
The FDA's also publicly warned against,
and these are all real, my steel woody,
willy go wild, big penis, Australia
kangaroo essence, strong horses, bull's
genital, and bigger, longer, more time,
more sperms, which is just immaculate.
AMC, please bring back Madmen because I
so badly want to see an entire episode
about Don Draper pitching a bigger,
longer, more time, more sperms ad
campaign. It's not a dick pill, it's a
carousel.
What I'm saying is these pills can be
subject to far less oversight and be
much more dangerous than you would
reasonably hope. And that is also true
of the next product that we're going to
be looking at tonight. It's made from
the leaves of theratum tree in Southeast
Asia. In its natural form and smaller
doses, it's generally considered safe
and acts as a stimulant. But in higher
doses, it becomes more of a seditive
with addictive opioid- like properties.
Crat's become increasingly popular with
millions of people estimated to use it
nationwide. And it speaks to its growing
popularity that at trade shows for smoke
shops companies will happily brag about
their expansion plans.
>> This show is huge forum. Now we just got
into edibles and some drinks and things
like that. Jelly 70 botanicals is our
newest line of gummies.
>> I'm with this company Hydroxy. We're a
single alphoid extract company and we're
going to be the strongest most purest on
the market right now.
>> We're the first extract enhanced powder
and capsule on the market. Do we want it
to be a soccer mom brand that you know
just to get your energy in the morning
instead of something else? You know what
I mean?
>> Yeah, I do know what you mean, bro. Uh,
and I've got to say there's a lot that
is offputting there. From the way Colby
here talks about soccer moms to this guy
being so wet to the unappealing flavors
of cratom on display, including fresh
grape, mocha taffy, and Dave's brew. If
your product is referring to Dave, and I
don't know who the Dave is, I'm not
feeling inherently confident in it.
Creative products are usually marketed
as an energy booster, a mood lifter, or
a pain reducer. But there are a number
of potential problems. Starting with the
fact that because many states have no
requirement for labeling when it comes
to these products, it can be hard to
know exactly what you are buying. When
the Tampa Bay Times ran an investigation
on, they tested 20 products. And while
some came in proper packaging like
these, others like this one labeled
train wreck were just powder in a bag.
And if you think train wreck looks
alarming, may I introduce you to red?
Just red, a bag of something with the
word red sharpied on it. The Times found
that of the products they tested, five
had no information about ingredients, 11
had no dosing instructions, and 13 had
no details about potency, which probably
shouldn't be that surprising given,
again, one of those products was a bag
of something called red. And the thing
is, even when products are packaged and
have dosing information, the packaging
itself may not encourage proper usage,
as this expert points out.
>> Can you read this label here? So, at the
very bottom, it says to not consume more
than onethird of that bottle within a
24-hour period,
>> but it's sold as a shot,
>> right? And that's clearly a problem
because everybody knows a bottle's type
dictates how you drink its contents. If
it's in a tiny shot bottle, you drink it
all at once. If it's in a big tall
bottle, you pour it into a glass. And if
it's in a Budlike lime bottle, you throw
it directly into the trash. These are
the basic rules of beverage consumption.
We even found one derived product that
claims a single tablet contains eight
servings mean you'd have to break it
into eight pieces even though it's only
scored into four. And the thing is
because these products can seem low
risk, people can feel way too
comfortable taking much more than the
recommended dose. Just listen to this ex
exchange that Joe Rogan had with a
guest.
>> I was on this uh discussion about
cretam. Are you familiar with this?
>> I'm on it right now.
>> Oh wow.
>> Yeah, I just took some. I I my
knee up the other day. I did something
and uh it's been stiff and painful. So,
I iced it before I came here and then I
just took uh took six of them. See what
happens.
>> Wow.
>> Took 10 once.
>> Now I get why people might think it's a
drug.
>> Yeah, for sure. But when I took four, I
was like, well, I took two for the first
time I took it, I took two and a couple
times I took two. I'm like, this is like
a mild stimulant. But then when you get
into the range of 8 to 10 pills, it's
like, "Oh, this this will you up."
This stuff, the stuff I take is Urban
Ice Organics and um
See, it says it says take two.
Joe
Joey.
Josephine,
what the are you doing? You didn't
even know the name of the pill or how
many you WERE SUPPOSED TO TAKE. What did
you know because it seems the main
knowledge you had about those pills
before taking them was that they were
pills and that was apparently enough for
you to happily toss half a dozen of them
back. But it really is worth knowing
exactly what you're ingesting and the
potential dangers because the truth is
products can be addictive as this woman
found. Amy has been addicted toratom for
nearly a decade. And she didn't buy it
from a dealer or off the street.
Instead, she got these tiny bottles
ofratom extract known as K shots from a
place many of you frequent every day.
>> I worked in a gas station behind my
house trying not to take opiates cuz
opiates are bad and it was in a little
display right beside me. 90% of my money
goes to this. The average price ofratom
is around $15 to $25 per bottle or for
the two pack of pills. Amy admits she
spent more than $100,000
in one year on this substance. If you
think about it, that is the price of
four Honda Civic LX sedans or high-end
RV.
I mean,
>> yeah, I guess that is true. But it's
also a pretty strange way to illustrate
the purchasing power of $100,000.
Because you don't expect the takeaway
from that story to be, if this woman
wasn't addicted to, she'd be rolling in
Honda Civics right now. Also, for what
it's worth, I don't need the news to
tell me the price of high-end
recreational vehicles. I'm well aware of
the cost. And so, by the way, is
Clarence Thomas. Now a key reason
someraton products have the potential
for addiction is because certain
components of theratum plant like
metroin interact with the same receptors
in your brain as opioids and while there
is metroin inratum in its natural state
some manufacturers will concentrate it
in their products and others will go
even further by synthesizing a compound
fromratum called 7 hydroxygrain or 70.
It's a substance that researchers have
found binds to the opioid receptors at
least seven times stronger than
morphine. As one researcher put it, the
difference between naturalratum and 70
is like the difference between drinking
a Miller light versus drinking 12 ounces
of Everclear. Some products have now
even ditched the word completely and
just put 70 front and center. And sales
have exploded. Here was the head of one
company who expanded from CBD products
to 70, marveling at just how quickly his
new product line took off.
>> I've truly never seen a product with the
type of sales this has. It it uh you
know, we had a 10-year lead with
Cannabis products and I've just never
seen anything move like this does. We
are actually doing more sales with 70
than we are all the cannabis products
combined. Wow.
>> And we're talking about something we've
been doing for a few months versus a
decade.
>> Yeah. It turns out 708 products are as
popular as that man's shirt is.
Distractingly red.
>> That is Vince Saunders, one of 70's
loudest proponents. Fun fact, he was
once a car salesman/largescale
illegal marijuana dealer. And even
funner fact, after he was arrested in
2000, his attorney argued in court to
void his prison term, citing, among
other things, the tax revenue lost from
having the number one Acura salesman in
the US behind bars. and I shouldn't go
to prison because I'm America's number
one Acura salesman might be the saddest
sentence of all time. Aside from I
shouldn't go to prison because I'm
America's number two Acura salesman. And
while some manufacturers position their
products as pain relievers or or even as
an offramp for people from more
dangerous drugs, just as many seem to
market them with a knowing wink to
consumers about their similarity to
illicit substances. There is Dopium,
which is pretty on the nose, but also
Opia and Perks and Bars, as well as
Roxy, Droxy, and Moxy. And the addictive
nature of these products can be
especially rough for people like this
woman who'd already been through an
opioid addiction and thought in 70 that
she'd found something safe.
>> This month, Madison McManis found
herself in a place she never wanted to
see again. Drug rehab.
>> Really disappointed in myself. I didn't
think that I would be there again. Um
yeah, it was really hard, you know. Um
lying in the detox for I think 3 days
just catatonic.
My body was just I mean everything was
on fire. It hurt. I just didn't want to
do it anymore.
>> She was 6 and 1/2 years clean from
heroin. When a friend suggested she try
7 to help with anxiety products like
these.
>> As soon as I took that 70, it was like
taking heroin again for the first time.
>> Wow. It was like taking heroin. Look,
you expect people to say that about
doing things like fentinel or watching a
Halloween dog parade or getting the push
alert that Henry Kissinger died. Inject
that straight into my veins until I
happily die. But not about taking a drug
that's readily available at gas station
convenience stores. In working on this
story, we've seen so many clips of
people talking about how hard it is to
quit these products. Yet some in this
industry will try to direct people away
from those examples and instead tell
them to focus on the positive like this
guy in Mississippi whose business is
called Drratom.
>> If you Googleratom and you Google what
are the downfalls, what are the negative
effects of them, that's what you're
going to get is the downfalls and the
negative effects of you what are the
pros and the positive and the good
points of what you're going to get. You
got to you got to learn how to Google I
mean Google nonbiasely and you'll get
the truth.
>> Sure. But you know, you can also say
that about anything, right? If you
Google what are the good points of
mountain lion attacks, you might find
some upsides to getting mowled by a
mountain lion. Though the results may
also be from websites secretly made by
mountain lions and then you're really
just getting the mountain lions version
of the truth. But the thing is, if you
don't just rely on how you Google,
troubling patterns do begin to emerge.
When the Washington Post went through
government statistics, it found that in
a recent three-year span, medical
examiners and coroners had listed as
contributing to or causing at least
4,100 deaths in 44 states and DC. Now,
to be fair, most cases did involve other
substances. Butratum was listed as the
sole substance causing death in 182 of
those cases. And there is every chance
that that is an undercount given these
substances are new enough that death
investigations don't always test for or
detectratum or 70. The fact is despite
how ubiquitous these products are, they
really haven't been tested properly for
safety as the former number one Acura
salesman in the country readily admits.
>> So 70 hasn't had any like human trials
like for regulations or anything like
that.
>> That is correct. Yeah. I mean the the
human trials have been people choosing
to use it.
>> Look look I I hate to second guess that
man. I'm afraid of the impact it would
have on the global economy. But that's
not how human trials work. That's just
selling people then seeing what
happens. And what happened in his case
is that the Missouri AG has sued his
company for deceptively marketing 70 and
as safe products. Incidentally, during
that investigation, it was noted his
company had recalled more than 3 million
pills after a bottle of tablets that
were marketed as containing 7 and a half
milligs of 70 turned out to contain
around 34 milligrams, over four times as
much. And while apparently, I have to
tell you, the company insists it makes
substantial efforts to ensure its
products are safe and reliable, and that
this appears to have been an isolated
outlier. First, I think we might
disagree on what the word substantial
means. And that statement appears much
less reassuring to me than I think they
want it to sound. It's basically given
34 millig is more than double the
maximum recommended dosage on the
package. And double the maximum dosage
is one of the more alarming reasons for
a recall. It's right up there with it's
actually horse meat and sometimes it
just explodes. Oh Oh Another
one's gone. Oh, you know what? I'm sure
it's fine. Elon's a genius.
Now, I should say some states are taking
action. For example, as of January, all
of these had some form of regulation on
70 or ranging from age restrictions and
labeling requirements to outright bans.
But I admit this is complicated because
first, as we've talked about multiple
times before on this show, in general,
full-on prohibition and criminalization
just isn't great drug policy. And
second, when it comes to this particular
industry, whenever one drug is banned,
another can quickly take its place. All
of which brings us to our final type of
gas station drug, TNT. Remember that guy
you saw earlier with the big pile of
bottles? Those weren't. He'd already
kicked an addiction to that after his
state banned it, only for him to then
get hooked on TNT. It's actually sold as
a pharmaceutical in Europe as an
anti-depressant, but has not been
approved by the FDA for any medical use
here. Instead, it's been marketed as a
neutropic or cognitive enhancer in
products like Neptune's Fix, Zazar, and
Tiana. And I will say it is not a great
sign. The Taeptine quickly picked up
this catchy nickname.
>> You can find it online at convenience
stores, even gas stations. But experts
are sounding the alarm, calling what's
in these bottles and pills, gas station
heroin.
>> Yeah, gas station heroin. And I know on
its face that sounds like the title of a
pretty good Lana Del Rey song, but it's
also a real nickname for a widely
available drug that can be incredibly
dangerous because TNT's been linked to
hundreds of reports of harm, including
overdoses and deaths. Alabama actually
banned it a few years ago, but in true
whack-a-ole style. A similar product
called Frenzy quickly replaced it on
shelves with at least one store there
even labeling it as from the maker of
Tiana. And even when states pass laws,
the truth is they don't always get well
enforced. Meaning that TNT still wound
up sitting on shelves for people to buy.
And that has led to some tragic outcomes
like this story from a few years ago in
Ohio. It was at this Midwestern gas
station that Chris Hagerty bought a
bottle of Neptune's fix even though the
product contained TNT banned a year
earlier by the state of Ohio.
>> I miss him dearly. In an interview with
the IT team almost four months ago,
Hagert's mother build gas station heroin
as death in a bottle.
>> $15 a bottle. How many people bought it
besides my son? It was for sale at the
gas station just
right next to the lottery tickets and
the cigarettes.
>> Yeah, that is terrible. And it is hard
to believe that something so immediately
dangerous could be sold at the gas
station next to lottery tickets. It'd be
like finding out that PetSmart sells
hand grenades next to the hamsters. Come
on, PetSmart. You know, everyone always
swings by the hamsters. You're getting
people at their weakest point.
And frustratingly, behind closed doors,
some in this industry seem well aware
that the products they're selling can be
dangerous. The reason that I know that
is that one of our producers actually
went to a trade show like the one you
saw earlier. And to answer your first
question, yeah, of course she saw a
cratom themed Cyber Truck in the parking
lot. Of course she saw that. You could
practically hear the limp biscuit music
wafting out of it. The whole convention
was honestly a pretty good glimpse into
an industry clearly already planning for
what comes next. A lot of vendors seemed
ready for 70 to be banned as they were
already marketing newer products like
this one whose marketing material said
the future of compliant in allratum
legal states 7 hydroxy replacement three
to four times stronger than 70. She also
spoke to a rep from a distribution
company that sells boner pills who got
surprisingly honest about the fact that
while some of their products are kind of
others could be actively
dangerous. Take a listen.
>> These are the gas station stuff.
>> Okay.
>> It's cheap. It doesn't work. Black ones
are dangerous though.
>> How so?
>> Yeah, they are they are so potent. So,
this is 200 mg. I would not advise
selling these to people more than 50
years old.
>> Oh, okay. Okay.
>> These ones are safe.
>> Wow. I wouldn't advise selling these to
people over 50. That is a reasonable
thing to say if you're selling tickets
to an Olivia Rodrigo concert, but not
when you're talking about your company's
unregulated dick pills. And it does feel
like don't consume if you're over 50 is
the kind of thing that shouldn't be
whispered at trade shows, but slapped in
massive lettering on your packaging.
This is a photo of that man's table. And
these are some of the pills that he told
us were super potent. They're called Mr.
bull tablets and their tagline is do it
like pro. So we actually ordered some
and sent them to this lab to be analyzed
and they found that when that guy said
the pills were super potent, he wasn't
lying cuz each contained 180 milligrams
of dopoxitine, that's 3 to six times the
prescription dose of a drug for
premature ejaculation that's not been
approved for use here in the US. And
they contained 270 milligrams of
Seletaphil, the active ingredient in
Viagra. That's nearly three times the
maximum prescription dose. That is a
lot. And worryingly, none of those
ingredients were listed on the package,
which instead claimed it's an all
naturatural herbal supplement containing
stuff like cinnamon bark, licorice, and
deer root. All of which just sounds like
the ingredients on sleepy time tea. And
there is a reason that the sleepy bear
isn't rocking a massive hardon on that
package. So, what do we do? Well, first,
take care of it. But also, RFK and his
FDA director have actually been talking
about the dangers of some of these
products, which I guess is good. I do
worry RFK is either going to say they
cause autism or suggest they somehow be
replaced with groundup raccoon carcass.
But still, it's something. Now,
unfortunately though, any good moves
that they take are likely to be
undermined by the fact that they've
gutted the FDA, which even before they
came along wasn't exactly well staffed.
Meanwhile, some states are taking a more
proactive approach. Missou's AG, for
instance, has launched an investigation
into major crater manufacturers and
retailers for potentially dangerous and
illegal practices. That is how they came
to be suing this guy. Although it shows
how slippery this industry is that he
said that if 70 is banned, his company
already has another product ready to
replace it. Look, something clearly has
to be done with this industry. The key
thing is to do it very carefully because
in the case of products containing 70
and TNT, a lot of people have now become
dependent on them. And one thing I want
to be absolutely clear about is if
states are going to start banning some
of these drugs, that should only happen
alongside a plan to help people who
cannot suddenly stop using them, whether
it's because they're using them to treat
pain or because they've become addicted.
Because if we learned one thing from the
opioid crisis is that every family
fortune is built on the blood of
strangers. But if we learned two things
is that when you take something very
strong off the market, not everyone can
just quit cold turkey. So there has to
be a harm reduction plan to go alongside
any potential ban. And I know there are
plenty of substances out there that are
addictive or dangerous. Alcohol,
tobacco, prescription drugs. But with
those things, we've tried over the years
and not always perfectly to match the
level of regulation around them to the
level of risks they present to make sure
that at the very least you know what
you're getting and what risks you're
taking when you choose to consume them.
What we haven't done though is let it be
a total freeforall where companies can
just sell whatever they want to anyone
who wants it and lie about what it
contains. And unfortunately, right now,
it's become incumbent upon all of us to
make ourselves aware of the potential
dangers here. Because these products can
be much more addictive than you think,
more powerful than you may even want
them to be, and contain things you did
not sign up for. So, if I may quote Joe
Rogan, something I really don't love to
do.
It's crucial to know that this stuff
could, in his words, you up. But
unlike Joe Rogan, it's just as crucial
to not then swallow 10 of them. Because
while gas station drugs may look fun and
low risk, especially when they're sold
in familiar environments, the truth is
you could easily wind up addicted and
losing tens of Honda Civics's worth of
money to them, or indeed far, far worse.