Is a Cannabinoid as Sweet by Any Other Name?

What do the names of synthetic cannabinoids tell us about modern life?

About fifteen years ago, I acted for a time as what might be called the vulgarity correspondent of a British newspaper of enormous circulation, whose own attitude towards vulgarity could best be described as ambivalent. In theory, it was against vulgarity; but in practice, it did much to advance vulgarity’s cause.

The newspaper would send me wherever adolescents and young adults were gathering in large numbers and behaving badly, so there was no shortage of material. Once it sent me to the Balearic island of Ibiza, where there were nightly drunken saturnalias on the beaches and in the streets. The motto of the thousands of young British holidaymakers was an adaptation of a famous Churchill speech made during the war: ‘We shall vomit on the beaches, in the fields and in the streets; we shall never be sober.’...

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