Steve Robinson

However, lawmakers, law enforcement eventually began to catch on to what was happening.

And like just in the most recent legislative session in Maine, there was a law to ban, a proposed law to ban TNF team.

So you've got that cycle I mentioned earlier where

the drug users figure out what's going to get them high, what's cheap, what's available, and they'll start to use it.

Law enforcement, two to three years later, discover what's going on.

And eventually, two to three years after that, it trickles to policymakers.

Policymakers finally figure out a way to change it, to change the law so that it can't happen.

But by that time, either

all the ill consequences from the drug have already happened or the drug users have already moved on so now what's happened is they've moved on to products like um 70h here are other forms of it um if you'll notice this one this one's called opia

Opio.

Opio doesn't sound at all like they're trying to conjure the idea that it's related to opium, does it?

There are some that are called perk.

Obviously, they're trying to conjure the image that that is Percocet.

This is another one.

I bought these both.

from the same store.

This was actually, I bought those at Bros 2, which you're probably familiar with, because it's right next door to Tucker's Studio in Maine.

And the guy who sold those to me didn't speak a lick of English, but when he saw me pointing at the gas station heroin section, he just started laying out in front of me all the different options.

And then the woman who did speak English and was maybe the general manager of the store saw that I was, I guess, a gas station heroin user and perked up and came over and actually tried to upsell me on the 200 milligram versions of the gas station heroin.

So she knew exactly what she was doing.