[garinda]

Originally Posted by Acrylic-bob

I remember once reading a sci-fi novel which rambled on about population and over-population and the effects thereof. In order to keep their populations quiescent and compliant drugs were handed out in the same way as state benefits.

Somehow, thirty years on, that does not seem so far fetched.

Sci-fi?

Probably why I never really saw the great attraction of mind altering drugs.

Much prefer gritty realism, and my own fertile imagination.