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Now it's "captagon". Used to be "flakka", and before that "krokodil". Those moral panics failed to get the support that meth did, and crack, and angel dust, and
by bediger4000 2y ago
Now it's "captagon". Used to be "flakka", and before that "krokodil". Those moral panics failed to get the support that meth did, and crack, and angel dust, and heroin and LSD.
WSJ trying to gin up a new boogey man drug for middle class suburbanites to be afraid of, so they avoid the dreaded downtown, with all the captagon dealers, it's a lawless hellscape.
- duskwuff 2y agoI don't think those parallels apply here. The article is fairly clear that this is a drug (or, more accurately, a name used for a variety of drugs) in the Middle East, primarily in Syria.
- ablation 2y agoI'm surprised you've managed to take this away from the article.
- bediger4000 2y agoI'm a little older than most HN commentors, and I've seen so very many clearly propagandistic moral panics over new drugs come and go. When an article like this comes up, it's very hard to see it otherwise.