That's not fringe at all. That was a claim made by anti-drug commercials that ran on TV across the US so frequently that it was satirized by South Park in 2002.

That's not fringe at all. That was a claim made by anti-drug commercials that ran on TV across the US so frequently that it was satirized by South Park in 2002. See the "Where did the idea come from" section here: https://southpark.cc.com/w/index.php?title=My_Future_Self_n%27_Me https://southpark.cc.com/w/index.php?title=My_Future_Self_n%...