Synthetic Cardamine

[ugliestmoose]

Um... People do realize, of course, that none of this would work? If its for kicks, its not addictive. If its not addictive, it wont feed an addiction to 'defect' Outcasts. If its not addictive, the Outcasts still have a business for their current 100 year old clients.

If it IS addictive (which can happen to any substance giving dopamine release), then its going to be illegal anyways. Sure, in theory you could make something that is identical to cardamine when it attaches to the receptors in the neuron, but then it would be fairly pointless for commercial use besides just keeping cardamine addicts alive. In effect, it would be Tretonin to a symbiote.

In short, if I'm hooked on heroin, clicking my heels and shooting up powdered sugar wont do anything.

a) Why is Cryer necessarily producing a "cure" for cardamine? There's no money in that! If I was Cryer, I'd be trying to make a safer "alternative" to cardi with all the same effects and none of the mutating-your-DNA bits. Then I'd market it legally - for cheaper than the street price of cardamine - and the government will be happy collecting the tax on it. Kill two birds with one stone: weaken the Outcast grip on the drug market and...profit! Kinda sorta like the tobacco and alcohol industries...

b) There is actually a sure way to drop the cardamine habit....it's called Cardamineaddictoholics Anonymous and I go every week. Met some really cool peeps there