"Super Potent Legal Bud"

Someone just posted an advertisement to my wall on my Facebook profile...and it's someone who doesn't know me very well! The message said:

"Hey Marcus, want to get high without breaking any of the existing laws? Get some super potent legal bud here!"

Then gives the URL for a site that sells the stuff.

Honestly, I'm a little intrigued because, well, anything to do with substances is on my radar due to my career. When I was a wee lad and hanging out in head shops and the like, I remember seeing a book called "Natural Highs." It gave recipes for concoctions one could make of roadside flowers and weeds, mixed with certain kinds of herbs and oils to create an intoxicating substance. Thankfully, they not only gave the recipes for this junk, but also the potential side effects (some of which included, oh, respiratory arrest) and symptoms to watch for if something went wrong.

People are always going to look for ways to get intoxicated. The fermenting of wine goes back thousands of years, as we all know. And it seems like every few years, a new street drug comes out that's more potent and deadly than the last.

I am very, very leery of companies which promote drug use in a "safe and legal" manner because so often, it's not safe and legal. This advertisement showed up on my facebook profile-unsolicited- and falls right into the hands of me, a guy who works in the prevention field. Yet, facebook is primarily utilized by those in the college years, so this is hitting the hands of young adults everywhere.

Parents have a hard enough time policing the net to keep their young kids safe, but this sorta advertising calls upon the sensibility of the recipient. People who get this advertising shoved in their face have to be wise enough to understand there is not safe and legal ways to do drugs-that's why they're called "drugs."

Be on the lookout for things like this...and be sure your finger is ready to hit the delete button when they show up!