War On Some Drugs
Sketch
of a story
Set
in an alternate universe where different drugs are illegal. Reversals; pot,
coke, downers, heroin are legal, but not chocolate, alcohol and tobacco. LSD is
still illegal – some things are the same in every universe.
A
chocolate-pot-sugar cake is also illegal in most dimensions. Chocolate is
denounced from the pulpit as the “Devil’s Dung”.
A
popular soda is called “Caffee-Cola” for what used to be in it. Ishmael’s sells overpriced gourmet coca-leaf brew
to stressed-out office workers.
The
main character has a psychedelic hallucination, with visions of gods and monsters, after staying up 4 days on caffeine. A side character shoots up
(ho-hum) then lights up (yikes!). “My room-mate’s a smoker!”
Caffeine
is smuggled in as an evil white powder; a concentrated drug of abuse, covertly
funding reactionary Presidential candidates. Wheeler-dealer “Liv” Puttermore
admits to this double-dealing, but challenges our hero to prove it.
At
the end, the War on Some Drugs leaves behind its old targets and shifts to
banning Rogaine, Prozac, Viagra and RU486.
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