Dude, who even knows.
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cyberpunk futures always have crazy new drugs, which is funny as the majority of people who aren’t VICE columnists seem perfectly happy with the old ones.
How the heck are Cyberpunks supposed to get Cyberhigh in the Cyberfuture if there aren’t sweet-ass Cyberdrugs though?
oh no, Cybercops!
I feel like this betrays a lack of knowledge of the actual drug scene, because let me tell you homeskillet: there are new drugs. It’s true they’re 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.
(Also, it’s worth noting that a lot of what people take under the general heading of, say, “heroin” 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’t either.)
come on though, varieties of opiates can’t compare with neuroin or nuke or whatever cyberpeeps are getting cyberfucked up on
Sure, but we’re not able to project our bodies into a perfect VR internet, either. Give it time.
A Juul is a cyberpunk joint
Yeah setting aside that vape rigs are like Star Trek TOS props as imagined by lowrider culture, IIRC in the ‘80s William Gibson stuff people were just doing Dexedrine and amphetamines and benzodiazepines and other ‘70s-ass stuff maybe projected a little into the future (plus ganja-smoking space Rastas), I think the exciting new drug thing was more ‘90s WIRED/Mondo 2000 technoshamanism