It seems like every few weeks there's an article on how drugs are amazing hitting the front-page.
HN has some peculiar medical fixations. It comes in waves. For a while there were a lot of submissions about intermittent fasting. 15 years ago people were excited about polyphasic sleep. 10 years ago it was all about modafinil. Enthusiasm about ketamine for depression was big, but it seems to have finally fizzled out.
Where do you go when you need to escape but can't actually go anywhere?
Inwards. Imagination, media, substances, meditation, solitude.
Well... drugs are amazing. They're so amazing people will literally die for them.