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The big market, these days, is in Downers. Reds and smack – Seconal and heroin – and a
hellbroth of bad domestic grass sprayed with everything from arsenic to horse tranquillizers.
What sells, today, is whatever Fucks You Up – whatever short-circuits your brain and grounds it
out for the longest possible time. The ghetto market has mushroomed into suburbia.The Miltown man has turned, with a vengeance, to skin-popping and even mainlining... and for every
ex-speed freak who drifted, for relief, into smack, there are 200 kids who went straight to the
needle off Seconal. They never even bothered to try speed.
Uppers are no longer stylish. Methedrine is almost as rare, on the 1971 market, as pure
acid or DMT. “Consciousness Expansion” went out with LBJ… and it is worth noting, historically,
that downers came in with Nixon.

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