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I felt stupid when someone told me what the 'roses in a glass' tubes that were sold in convenience stores were really used for, but I guess it never occurred to

I felt stupid when someone told me what the 'roses in a glass' tubes that were sold in convenience stores were really used for, but I guess it never occurred to me that crack pipes would be something these places would want to be associated with. At least it restored my faith in romantic gestures a bit to know people weren't buying them as a token of love.

ssl-3 3y ago
The bodega sells whatever people want to buy, as long as it doesn't get the bodega in trouble for doing so. Beer, wine, booze, tobacco, and vapes are obvious, but things like cough medicine (dextromethorphan), diarrhea pills (loperamide), little roses in neat glass tubes, and air dusters (let's kill some brain cells!) are perhaps less-obvious. The bodega wants to be associated with being the place where a person can stop in and buy anything, from a can of soup to a pair of pants.
- BrandoElFollito 3y ago
  What's the deal with loperamide? I once asked why levothyrox, a drug to compensate a dying thyroid, is so regulated (at least in France). It's not like it's psychotic or something, it is just a hormone. Turns out people were buying it expecting weight loss... It's because of such idiots that people whose life is already complicated gets it even more.
  - madog 3y ago
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loperamide#Off-label/unapproved_use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loperamide#Off-label/unapprove... News to me as well
  - ssl-3 3y ago
    It's an opiate, and some opiate addicts like loperamide. It's certainly not the fix they're looking for, but some of them like it enough that -- unlike seemingly every other OTC drug they stock -- it is kept behind the counter at the Dollar General near me, so that a would-be buyer has to ask for it. And that's not a result of regulation (anyone can buy as much as they want), but is rather a result of stock shrink. It tends to disappear in some less-than-savory neighborhoods. (I use loperamide occasionally for its main intended purpose of settling my gut down enough that I can do something other than hang out near a bathroom while I quickly dehydrate, and more than once it has been legitimately hard to find in some areas when I've needed to buy more.)

ssl-3 3y ago

The bodega sells whatever people want to buy, as long as it doesn't get the bodega in trouble for doing so. Beer, wine, booze, tobacco, and vapes are obvious, but things like cough medicine (dextromethorphan), diarrhea pills (loperamide), little roses in neat glass tubes, and air dusters (let's kill some brain cells!) are perhaps less-obvious. The bodega wants to be associated with being the place where a person can stop in and buy anything, from a can of soup to a pair of pants.

BrandoElFollito 3y ago
What's the deal with loperamide? I once asked why levothyrox, a drug to compensate a dying thyroid, is so regulated (at least in France). It's not like it's psychotic or something, it is just a hormone. Turns out people were buying it expecting weight loss... It's because of such idiots that people whose life is already complicated gets it even more.
- madog 3y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loperamide#Off-label/unapproved_use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loperamide#Off-label/unapprove... News to me as well
- ssl-3 3y ago
  It's an opiate, and some opiate addicts like loperamide. It's certainly not the fix they're looking for, but some of them like it enough that -- unlike seemingly every other OTC drug they stock -- it is kept behind the counter at the Dollar General near me, so that a would-be buyer has to ask for it. And that's not a result of regulation (anyone can buy as much as they want), but is rather a result of stock shrink. It tends to disappear in some less-than-savory neighborhoods. (I use loperamide occasionally for its main intended purpose of settling my gut down enough that I can do something other than hang out near a bathroom while I quickly dehydrate, and more than once it has been legitimately hard to find in some areas when I've needed to buy more.)