THE DANGERS OF NUTMEG!
Apparently there are videos on Youtube teaching kids to smoke nutmeg and that has become the new fear-flavor of the week. First, nutmeg has been used as a drug for a minute. I learned about that watching the Malcolm X movie as a kid. Did I run out and try to do it? Hell no. I didn't even know what was going on and my mother explained it in the usual dismissive Black parent tone.
"Why did he give him nutmeg?"
"People get high of that sometimes. Now be quiet, we're in the theater."
Now they're talking about trying to figure out if there should be some registry you have to get on in order to buy nutmeg, similar to the whole Sudafed thing. My question: Why are we constantly trying to save people from themselves? I'm all for putting safety caps on top of the Triaminic bottle to keep little kids from OD'ing, but once you pass twelve I don't really give a damn what you do.
If you want to go out and buy a treasure chest of Sudafed to build a meth lab, knock yourself out. When you blow up in the process, I just hope none of your neighbors die with you. If you want to smoke nutmeg, K12 or pop rocks...knock yourself out! Why do I have to now show ID to buy sinus medicine?
I personally believe that part of the problem with society is that we're trying to steal nature's job. Sometimes survival of the fittest helps in population control. If you're too stupid to know that smoking seasonings or playing chemist with a GED is bad then we don't really need you. Heaven forbid you reproduce and raise another dimwitted child.
People are stupid.
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